Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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It's not about having enough time, it's about making enough time.
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.
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February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.
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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
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- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.
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Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.
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Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
