Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes Quotes

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory.

Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.