Haruki Murakami Quotes
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
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The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.
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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
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I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
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In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.
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It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
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That's what the army did, it created crises before any existed; it created a military emergency out of the void, the way God created the heavens and the earth.
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As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation.
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Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.
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Everything you are comes from your choices.
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
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Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
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I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
