01c. 1949 ADYou're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
02c. 1949 ADBecause memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
03c. 1949 ADLet your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
04c. 1949 ADHow can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-- your self. You must believe in your own powers.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
05c. 1949 ADthe mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed--your self. You must believe in your own powers.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
06c. 1949 ADTisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognitaHaruki Murakami / quote ↗
07c. 1949 ADNarrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
08c. 1949 ADNo two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know—or think we know—is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
09c. 1949 ADThe mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
10c. 1949 ADThat's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
11c. 1949 ADThink it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
12c. 1949 ADMoney had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
13c. 1949 ADBeyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
14c. 1949 ADKindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
16c. 1949 ADI thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
17c. 1949 ADMr. Nakata, this world is a terribly violent place. And nobody can escape the violence. Please keep that in mind. You can't be too cautious. The same holds true for cats and human beings.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
18c. 1949 ADThe real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
20c. 1949 ADIt's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
21c. 1949 ADit occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
22c. 1949 ADAs soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
23c. 1949 ADReality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
24c. 1949 ADHaida stopped and glanced at the clock on the wall. Then he looked at Tsukuru. He was, of course, Haida the son, but Haida the father has been the same age in his story, and so the two of them began to overlap in Tsukuru's mind. It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one. Maybe it wasn't the father who had experienced this, but the son. Maybe Haida was just relating it as if his father had experienced it, when in reality he was the one who had. Tsukuru couldn't shake this illusion.Haruki Murakami / quote ↗
