Haruki Murakami Quotes
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.
Quotes to Explore
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.
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Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it
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I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
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Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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One of the things that fascinated people about the twins, and one of the first things that comes to people's minds when they see Siamese Twins is: well, how do you have sex?
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When you play from the heart, all of a sudden there's no gravity. You don't feel the weight of the world, of bills, of anything. That's why people love it. Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear, and instead of problems you get possibilities.
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When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
