Haruki Murakami Quotes
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策，势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。
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Ich überhaupt vielseitigkeit nicht recht mag, oder eigentlich nicht recht daran glaube. Was eigenthümlich, und schön, und groß sein soll, das muß einseitig sein.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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My thoughts were chasing each other all over the place, but nothing seemed to sort itself out. Advice, I thought. Ask his advice. On love? Finance? Career? Better stick to love, I decided, it’s what’s on your mind anyway. And with that my mind went blank.
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In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.
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To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
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There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
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We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
