Haruki Murakami

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  • b3472596015has quoted5 years ago
    I was always stuck between feelings of inferiority and superiority.
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    Tolstoy’s famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way. I wouldn’t go so far, though, as to say you savor it.
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    imaginary one has grown obscure. There are two moons in the sky now. These, too, were brought over from the world of fiction.”
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    The boundary between the real world and the im
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    Human chorionic gonadotropin is secreted during the early stages of pregnancy, the book said, and helps maintain the corpus luteum. The corpus luteum secretes progestogens and estrogen to preserve the inner lining of the womb and prevent menstruation. In this way the placenta gradually takes form. In seven to nine weeks, once the placenta is complete, there is no more need for the corpus luteum and the role of the human chorionic gonadotropin is over.
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    savant syndrome. People with extraordinary powers
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    “ ‘Dohta’?” Aomame asked.

    “Something like a living shadow. Here another character becomes involved-an old friend of mine. A man I can trust. I put my daughter in his care. Then, not too long ago, yet another character became involved, someone you know very well by the name of Tengo Kawana. Sheer chance brought Tengo and my daughter together as a team.”
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    , the first one to usher in the so-called Little People was my daughter. She was ten years old at the time. Now she is seventeen. The Little People emerged from the darkness at some point, coming here through her, and they made me their agent. My daughter became a Perceiver and I became a Receiver. Apparently we were suited to such roles by nature. In any case, they found us. We did not find them.”
  • Justisia Yunitahas quoted4 years ago
    Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive… the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive… The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil
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