- Haruki Murakami
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.’”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.’”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
“Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Take, for instance, the dream-world in which time does not flow but sticks, adhering each town to a particular point in history and each person to a particular point in life. There is no shared stream of present in this world — only islands of neighboring solitudes, each suspended in a different moment of a different past: "The tragedy of this worl... See more