Haruki Murakami Quotes
I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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我们需要的是热烈而镇定的情绪，紧张而有秩序的工作。
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The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
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The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
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Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
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The people of New Hampshire want someone in the U.S. Senate with clear, concise views on terrorism. They'll judge a congressman based on the people he associates with, his voting record, and his campaign contributions.
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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
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Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
