Haruki Murakami book cover series by Maria D’amoto
Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
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Dance with the Sheep Man by Maki Kobayashi
Naoko, Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood by hacco
“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
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“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,”
Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the ground. You forget to even look at the night sky.Haruki Murakami
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Kafka on the Shore, Alternate cover
(by Teo Yu Siang)
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I’m really realistic. But when I write, I write weird.Haruki Murakami
(Source: pink-stitchy, via ai-kotoba)
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I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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The meals in Norwegian Wood
Pepper Adams Quintet - The Long Two/Four
“Rummaging around in old shelves of LPs is one of the few things that makes life worth living, as far as I’m concerned. On that particular day I’d located a used copy of Pepper Adam’s recording for Riverside called 10 to 4 at the 5 Spot. It was a live recording of the Pepper Adams Quintet, with Donald Byrd on trumpet, recorded in New York at the Five Spot jazz club. “10 to 4,” of course, meant ten minutes till four o’clock, meaning that they played such a hot set they went on till dawn. This copy of the album was a first pressing, in mint condition, and was going for only seven or eight dollars. I owned the Japanese version of the record and had listened to it so much it was all scratched. Finding an original recording in this good shop and at this price seemed, to exaggerate a little, like a minor miracle. I was overjoyed as I bought the record, and just as I was exiting the shop a young man passed me and asked, “Hey, do you have the time?” I glanced at my watch and automatically answered, “Yeah, it’s ten to four.”
After I said this I noticed the coincidence and gulped. What in the world is going on? I wondered. Was the god of jazz hovering in the sky above Boston, giving me a wink and a smile and saying, “Yo, you dig it?”“
— Haruki Murakami - Chance Traveler
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