If, through some kind of reincarnation, it were possible to be reborn as Ushikawa's clothing, with a guarantee of rare glory in the next rebirth, I would still not want to do it.
Haruki MurakamiThis person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.
Haruki MurakamiI'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do."
"A rule?"
"If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.
Tags: advice-life-form-formlessness
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?
Haruki MurakamiYou can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
Haruki MurakamiTags: cancer
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
Haruki MurakamiTags: the-past
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
Haruki MurakamiProperly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?"
"I wouldn't know," I said.
"Nor would we," said the scientists.
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
Haruki MurakamiIn this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
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