Haruki Murakami: The iconic author's most famous quotes from his books

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist and translator. The author has received noted literary honours from around the world for his work. The author is popular among the bibliophiles for his fictional and non-fictional work. Murakami started his writing career when he was 29. Murakami wrote his first novel in 1979. The book, titled Hear the Wind Sing, was based on an idea that struck Murakami while watching a baseball game between the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp. Murakami's first novel was a big hit, and it encouraged him to pursue writing as a career. Murakami is famous among his fans for his first-person narrative.

The accomplished writer has a plethora of fiction and non-fictional work to his credit. Here are a few quotes taken from Murakami's literary works. Take a look at them:

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A few quotes from Haruki Murakami's literary works: 

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
• Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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• I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
• Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
• Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

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• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
• Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
• Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

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• That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
• What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

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