Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.
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I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.
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I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.
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Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron
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This is a difficult situation that we are not accustomed to.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
