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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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
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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 had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.
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The good side of the world media village was the sense it gave ten billion that each of them had at least some small connection with the whole. The bad side was that no one ever encountered anything, anymore, that was completely new.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
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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.
