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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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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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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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
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All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)
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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
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Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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Beware the beast, but enjoy the feast he offers.
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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.
