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Kafka on the Shore - Quotations and famous phrases from the book by Haruki Murakami

"Kafka on the Shore" is a novel by Haruki Murakami, author of "Norwegian Wood".

The book tells the story of a fifteen who runs away from home, and those of an elder with the peculiarity to understand the language of cats. The plot is gripping and expertly woven.

Here some quotes and phrases full of meaning contained in the novel "Kafka on the Shore":

# "is a mistake to look too far. If one looks into the distance, he sees what he has at his feet, and ends up stumbling. But focus too much on small details that you have under your nose is not good. If you look a bit 'well, it collides with something. So it is better to attend to their chores looking ahead far enough, and the order established step by step. This, in all things, is the key point. "

# "... But nature, in a sense, is unnatural. And the quiet is ominous. To live with these contradictions, it takes experience and training. "

#" The world is changing every day, Mr Nakata. Every day, when the time comes, the sun comes. But the world is the same on the day before. And she is not the same Nakata yesterday. Do you understand?
"Yes."

# "In dreams begin responsibilities" (Yeats)

# "Happiness is always the same, but the unhappiness can have endless variations, as also said Tolstoy. Happiness is a fairytale, unhappiness a story. "

#" Ask, and ashamed for a moment, do not ask and be ashamed for ever "was the favorite motto my grandfather.

# "The pure present is the imperceptible process by which the past devouring the future advances. In truth, every perception is already memory." (Henri Bergson)

# "The ego, as well as being the content of a report, it is also the act of relating to itself. " (Hegel)

# "My grandfather always said that the beauty of life is that things do not go as you want."

# "In children there is' the man already."

# "Until you will be on Monday morning, you're the one's arms, listening to the sound of time passing."

# "There's nothing here, except for variations weather, to differentiate the other day. If there were, we would lose all distinction. The border between today and tomorrow, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, is weak: Time is like a ship without anchor, transported here and there by the current. "

#" To have lived without reading Hamlet is like have been all my life in the bottom of a coal mine. "(Berlioz)

#" The memories will warm the body from within. But at the same time you tear into it. "