Haruki Murakami quotes - page 30

If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals . . . We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it's too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us -- create who we are. It is we who created the system. (Haruki Murakami)

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami - Image
Occupation: Japanese Writer
Born: January 12, 1949
Quotes count: 726
Wikipedia: Haruki Murakami

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