Haruki Murakami: Frases em inglês (página 29)

“The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground”

“What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!”

“Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.”

“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”

“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.”

“Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.”

“Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.”

“I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.”

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

“[…] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.”

“Every person has their own colour.”

“I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.”

“He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.”

“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.”

“Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.”

“Of course, they're not clowning aroundto make me laugh. They're doing their best to live verylives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.”

“Have your dream… What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)”

“Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.”

“At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.”