Haruki Murakami Quotes
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.
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...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
