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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4fed1c | I'm not sure if I could tell the difference--between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either--that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a221bfa | Tell me something, Toru," She said. "Do you love me?" "You know I do." "Will you do me two favors?" "You can have up to three wishes, Madame." Naoko smiled and shook her head." No, two will do. One is for you to realize how grateful I am that you came to see me here. I hope you'll understand how happy you've made me. I know it's going to save me if anything will. I may not show it, but it's true." "I'll come to see you again." I said. "And .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 98ac4e2 | Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8e01abb | I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0c7feb8 | But how do you see you?" she asked. "Ever read The Brothers Karamazov?" I asked. "Once, a long time ago." "Well, toward the end, Alyosha is speaking to a young student named Kolya Krasotkin. And he says, Kolya, you're going to have a miserable future. But overall, you'll have a happy life." Two beers down, I hesitated before opening my third. "When I first read that, I didn't know what Alyosha meant," I said. "How was it possible for a life.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ecbd6ef | I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone. | beauty beauty-in-nature loneliness metaphor moon nature sad | Haruki Murakami | |
| b3a85e1 | That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. | writing | Haruki Murakami | |
| e61ee9d | At times like this, adults need a drink | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b234b17 | It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it." | time true | Haruki Murakami | |
| 70a3e76 | He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled "Pending" and postponed any further consideration." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b9d3287 | We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day"." | nietzsche | Matthew Strecher | |
| 9e020e9 | But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f71452c | Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud? | memories memory nostalgia writing | Haruki Murakami | |
| 5544fb4 | With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman" | error life mindfulness | Huston Smith | |
| 3152529 | To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. | faults quote the-moon-an-sixpence w-somerset-mauham | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 0592238 | They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common past was a wall of indifference between them. Kitty knew too well that she had done nothing to beget her father's affection, he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted, the bread-winner who was a little despised because he could prov.. | family fathers love parents | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 493b67a | It's a shame that people all over the world can't have that kind of love in their hearts," he said. "There would be no wars, slaughter, or murder; no greed or selfishness. It would be the kind of world that God wants us to have--a wonderful world." | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 116d4f8 | Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 6b325d5 | She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away. | love | Kim Edwards | |
| ad522d8 | There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime. | relationship sorrow sympathy the-count-of-monte-cristo | Alexandre Dumas | |
| da31724 | To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| e4df9f3 | You who are in power have only the means that money produces -- we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 4171656 | Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn't keep you warm at night, life's too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b6e1bfd | Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c30f435 | I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depressed, and do all those things you did?' I said, 'I wanted this girl and she left me.' And he said,'Well, we have to look into that.' And I said, 'There's nothing to look into! I wanted her and she left me.' And he said, 'Well, why are you feeling so intense?' And I said, 'Cause I want the girl!' And he said, 'What's underneath it?' And I said, .. | film funny humor | Woody Allen | |
| 3727bac | Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation. | Steve Martin | ||
| d64fa3b | You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bebed0e | His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3b67d70 | I'm missing something, you know? That special 'sparkle' that ;life is supposed to bring. I have the job, the child, the family, the apartment and the friends, but I've lost the sparkle./ | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f3a580c | Silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head. Perhaps their seeming simplicity belies a hidden mosaic of fanciful thoughts. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c2e75b5 | It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8818b4e | Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I've decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it's not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it's all about the money. Probably because I don't have any. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e380356 | Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 977e7e8 | If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5fa3da6 | It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 32ff3b2 | anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b65ac9e | Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 618add2 | As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child. | hate lacy motherhood peter unconditional-love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7284348 | If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? | happiness inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4d5f4c8 | How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 48aa356 | until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5cd25d0 | During the night he'd kicked off a sock; his toes were plump as early peas; it was all she could do not to taste his caramel skin. So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him,you swallowed him whole. Love was sustenance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream. | nineteen-minutes selena | Jodi Picoult | |
| 8dcf18c | You can feel people staring: it's like heat that rise from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don't have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it's about you. I use to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they are staring at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn't tell. I mean, I was just me. Then one.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dbb8f49 | Everyone Deserves A Happy Ending | Jodi Picoult |