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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It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.
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Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.
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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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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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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.
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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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Mankind must cease harming the harmless.
