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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If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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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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The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
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Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been...destroyed by sudden environmental change.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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I soon forgot storm in music.
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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.
