Haruki Murakami Quotes
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
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If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection.
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Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.
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I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.
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There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
