Haruki Murakami Quotes
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.
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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
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Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
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I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
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My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.
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Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.
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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
