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.
Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Michelangelo
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
Jane Austen
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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.
Charles Dickens
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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.
Ivan Turgenev
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I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some handmade paper, and I just have the desire to drip on wet paper. It reminds me of when I was seven years old and had my tonsils out, and one of the first artworks I made was on toilet paper with a colored pencil; it was sort of half paint and half colored pencil. But I got very involved with color and absorption and I think, you know, 78 is a good time to go back to the beginning.
Barbara Hammer
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I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.
Dick Trickle
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
Elena Ferrante
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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.
Haruki Murakami
