Haruki Murakami Quotes
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
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In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
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Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
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I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
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This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
