Haruki Murakami Quotes
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
Quotes to Explore
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
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The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.
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The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.
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It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.
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There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
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I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
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The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.
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Consciousness creates reality.
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There’s also more two-way communication between musicians and listeners. There’s more of a feedback loop. It’s mostly just made things more smoother in terms of announcing shows and things like that.
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We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
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The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
