1. I like my cowardice, and I also like pain and embarrassment. I like the light in summer, the smell of wind, the chirping of cicadas, I like these, I like them very much.

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

2. I turned. So someone in front of me was turning the next corner. Who could not see the figure, only the white skirt flashed. But the white color of this skirt is burned into my eyes and will never leave.

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

3. There is absolutely nothing here. There are no pre-visits from the dentist, no problems waiting to be solved in the drawer, no irredeemably complicated relationships, no good intentions forced by a sense of trust.

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

4. The night was surprisingly warm, but the sky was still gloomy. The tidal south wind blows slowly. As usual. The smell of the sea mingled with the smell of impending rain. There is a weary intimacy all around. The sound of insects is everywhere in the grass in the river. It looked like it was going to rain. What will fall will be a drizzle that you can’t tell whether it will fall or not, but it will soak your body from top to bottom.

The river can be seen in the dim white light of the mercury lamp. The water was shallow, barely ankle deep, and as clear as ever. Those who come down directly from the mountain will not be polluted. The river bed is covered with stones washed down from the mountains and gravel from Salalah, and there are waterfalls everywhere to stop the quicksand. There is a deep puddle under the waterfall with small fish swimming in it.

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventures"

5. The world is mediocre, there is no doubt about it. In this way, could it be that the world was mediocre from the beginning? Otherwise. The world is originally chaotic, but chaos is not mediocre. Mediocrity begins with the differentiation of human life and means of production. Marx fixed mediocrity by defining the proletariat. Only in this way can Stalinism be in the same line as Marxism. I'm sure about Marx, because he was one of the few geniuses who remembered the original chaos. In the same sense, I also hold a positive attitude towards Tostoyev. However, I do not recognize Marxism, it is too mediocre

——Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventures"

6. It may be strange to say this - I don't think so at all. Now is the present, I always feel like I am not me, this is not here. This happens all the time. It took a long, long time before this finally came together.

——Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

7. How are you?

It seems like I haven't seen you for a long time. How many years have we not seen each other?

How many years have we not seen each other?

The feeling of time has gradually become dull. It was as if there was a flat black bird scratching around on my head, unable to count past three. Sorry, I wish you could tell me.

I am afraid that leaving your hometown city without telling everyone has caused you a lot of trouble, or you may be unhappy that even you are hiding this. I tried to explain it to you several times, but never did. I wrote a lot of letters and tore up a lot of them. It is natural to say that it is a matter of course - it is impossible to explain things clearly to others if you cannot explain them to yourself.

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventures"

8. I am twenty-nine years old, and my twenties will come to an end in six months. Ten years of accomplishing nothing, absolutely nothing. Everything I gained was of no value, everything I accomplished was meaningless, and all I got out of it was boredom.

What was it about in the beginning? Now I have forgotten all about it. But there was something there, something that shook my heart and through my heart the hearts of others. Ultimately, all is lost. What should be lost is lost. Otherwise, what can I do except give up everything?

At least I survived. Even though the dead Indians were the best Indians, I still had to survive.

Why?

To tell the legend to Shibi?

Why!

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

9. Unemployment makes me feel better. I'm simplifying a little bit. I lost my hometown, my youth, my friends, my wife, and I will lose it in three months at the age of twenty-nine. What will happen to me when I am sixty years old?

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

10. Since she is thirty-three years old, she is three Thirteen years old. Thinking about it this way, he does seem to be thirty-three years old. But if she said she was twenty-seven, she definitely looked twenty-seven.

The small wrinkles at the corners of the eyes look more like they have been there since birth than due to age. Only the thin white neck that popped out from the collar of her two-buttoned shirt and the back of her hands on the table were subtle hints of her age. People grow older from childhood, indeed from childhood, and indelible stains gradually cover their bodies.

—— Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventure"

11. Sincere words are nowhere to be told to you, just like sincere breathing and sincere peeing are nowhere to be found

——Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventures"

12. What I know about her now is only about her memory, and that memory escapes quickly like necrotic cells, even with me. The exact number of times they had sex is unknown

——Haruki Murakami's "Sheep Hunting Adventures"

13. Sorry for being too loud just now. The sheep man whispered about the sheep side and The two sides of people often collide and become like this, but it’s not malicious. Besides, you also said things that seemed to blame me

——Murakami Haruki’s "Sheep Hunting Adventure"