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 hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.
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I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write about it in a general way and make metaphors. Like "I'm the wolf and you are the moon ".
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
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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.
