Haruki Murakami

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#gentleman #gentlemen #inspirational #manners #motivational

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics

In dreams begins responsiblities. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#responsiblities #dreams

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#growth #heart #growth

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#self-love #love

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#sincerity #love

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #experience

I don’t know what it means to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life