Haruki Murakami Quotes
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless.
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I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling, who don't have the financial means, who don't have the support, and so many people are single raising children - that's hard.
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Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.
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You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
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Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.
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Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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I think East will be pretty good, I guess
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My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.
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Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera...
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The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless.
