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theguardian.com Librarians in uproar after borrowing record of Haruki Murakami is leaked Books the celebrated Japanese author borrowed from a library in Kobe when he was a schoolboy have been revealed by a newspaper

libraryjournal:

Of scholarly interest, as a Japanese newspaper claims, or an invasion of patron privacy?

Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.

Haruki Murakami
(via thatlitsite)

We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(via vintageanchorbooks)

I started to imagine another me somewhere, sitting in a bar, nursing a whiskey, without a care in the world. The more I thought about it, the more that other me became the real me, making this me here not real at all.

Haruki Murakami (via thatlitsite)

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Haruki Murakami, After the Quake (via vintageanchorbooks)

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via bookmania)

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Haruki Murakami (via psych-facts)