"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" Quotes
"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami intertwines two narratives: one set in a surreal, isolated town where a man loses his shadow and memories, and another in a futuristic Tokyo where a data processor uncovers a conspiracy involving his subconscious mind.
fiction | 400 pages | Published in 1985
Quotes
There is no war that will end all wars.
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.
A sense of duty was never mine.
Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought.
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea.
Time is too conceptual. It can be days or years, and I wouldn't know the difference.
Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.
Information is control.
Sound reasoning is a rare flower.
Every human being has his own little private snowflake of sorrow.
