Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

Kakfa on the Shore

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Topic

Memories Nostalgia The past

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Kakfa on the Shore

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Japan Asia

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Original Citation

Murakami, Haruki. Umibe no Kafuka [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

Current Citation

Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore. Translated by Philip Gabriel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006.

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Another quote about The past

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

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Topic
God's power God Changing the past The past
Speaker
Agathon

Author

Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics. Written by Aristotle. 4th century BC, bk 7, ch. 2, 1139b.

Current Citation

Agathon. Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. Translated by Hugh Tredennick and J. A. K. Thomson. Penguin, 2004, bk. 6, ch. 2, 1139b (Bekker).

Another quote originally in Japanese

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

Matsuo Basho

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Topic
Wanderlust

Author

Matsuo Basho
Source
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Genre
Travel writing
Language
Japanese
Time
1702 1700s 18th century
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Original Citation

Basho, Matsuo. 奥の細道 (Oku no Hosomichi) [The Narrow Road to the Deep North]. 1702.

Current Citation

Basho, Matsuo. "The Narrow Road to the Deep North." The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches, trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa. Penguin, 1967.