Haruki Murakami Quotes
Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.
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What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
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I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
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There is much evidence indicating that the Capitalistic and Communist conspiracies BOTH are directed by a single master conspiracy which may have continuity with the Order of the Illuminati which was founded 200 years ago.
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I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
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I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.
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Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
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If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.
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Sometimes people don't like me because I'm too honest; I speak the truth.
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After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
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There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes.
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.
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Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.
