All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Metaphor”

“Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life”
“Everything in life is a metaphor.”
“If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #â€Ž running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.”
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”
“I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.”
“[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”

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