Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Source: Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (2010)

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Source: Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (2011).

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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Source: Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Source: This quote was said by Haruki Murakami in an interview, as reported in “The New Yorker” December 23, 1996.