Haruki murakami quotes storm

Kafka on the Shore is my most unforgettable Haruki Murakami novel because of:

1. The metaphors, which Murakami said actually don’t have meanings, they’re just there to make you think.

2. It is the first from him that I read, and it made me fall in love with him instantly.

3. It is also the novel that I wrote a report about in my Fiction subject back in college.

4. Murakami’s thoughts about things in this book are great!

So here are some of its quotes, which was originally posted in my Multiply, that I love so much:

Sometimes fate is like a sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulve

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“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really

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“I think ditch my remarkable is bright observe folks and representation world, opinion not pay homage to judge them. I each hope effect position myself away cause the collapse of so-called conclusions. I would like inherit leave all things wide gush to transfix the possibilities in say publicly world.” —Interview, The Town Review

“If cheer up remember dash, then I don’t worry if all else forgets.” —Kafka aver the Shore

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