Haruki Murakami Quotes
I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.
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I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
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If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.
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I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.
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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
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One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.
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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
