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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d97c7a0 | I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that .. | existential-crisis good-intentions introspection japan modernism novel psychology | Haruki Murakami | |
| d830ce2 | She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 94a174d | In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6ce0dd4 | No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 31651d5 | If I had to say anything it'd be this: Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d395037 | Anyhow, I took every stitch of clothing off and got out of bed. And I got down on my knees on the floor in the white moonlight. The heat was off and the room must have been cold, but I didn't feel cold. There was some kind of special something in the moonlight and it was wrapping my body in a thin, skintight film. At least that's how I felt. I just stayed there naked for a while, spacing out, but then I took turns holding different parts of.. | moon moonbathing moonlight | Haruki Murakami | |
| ddda928 | Actually, I'm extremely dissatisfied with being who I am. It's nothing to do with my looks or abilities or status or any of that. It simply has to do with being me. The situation strikes me as grossly unfair. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8b2f3dc | Do you know what 'Sputnik' means in Russian? 'Travelling companion'. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It's just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7a32605 | All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. We don't live with the mechanical precision of a bank account or by measuring all our lines and angles with rulers and protractors. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 55ebc0c | Just speak your mind honestly. That's the best thing. It may hurt a little sometimes, and someone may get upset, but in the long run, it's for the best. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 30cd6eb | Having a drink in bed while listening to music and reading a book. As precious to me as a beautiful sunset or good clean air. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c53a474 | As I gazed at my reflection I wondered, Where am I headed? Before that, though, the question was Where have I come to? Where is this place? No, before that even I needed to ask, Who the hell am I? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d688313 | I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8516a3f | Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?" "Nothing is written in your eyes". I replied. "It is written in my eyes and i see the reflection in yours" | soulmate | Haruki Murakami | |
| 31aa7ee | You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7fce798 | A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another. | memories murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8208619 | They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains... And it may even be that they found their Kingdom. | M. M. Kaye | ||
| 98ebab7 | You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c160b5c | When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. | Huston Smith | ||
| dab9074 | There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| e0b0e20 | I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5fe76b4 | Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 989e0bc | I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day. | ghosts harm mankind | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 8db76ae | I am selfish -- you have already said so-- and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself. Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678). | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 0135f15 | He who has a partner has a master. | partnership | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 3d4f54e | in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 75b225c | One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all. | Walker Percy | ||
| adee34c | Kugelmass, unaware of this catastrophe, had his own problems. He had not been thrust into , or into any other novel, for that matter. He had been projected into an old textbook, , and was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word ("to have") - a large and hairy irregular verb - raced after him on its spindly legs." -- | Woody Allen | ||
| 01e73db | End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back, I stepped on it. Penelope and Javier anxious to work with me again. Said if I ever come up with another screenplay to try and find them. | Woody Allen | ||
| 648b889 | No, no, because she's a mental adolescent, and being romantic, | woody-allen | Woody Allen | |
| 89a3aa8 | On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. | jungle quest team trust | Tahir Shah | |
| 77f17c7 | In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!" | Steve Martin | ||
| e2b8bdb | The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds. | Steve Martin | ||
| 42bb29a | She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me. | Steve Martin | ||
| cb8e12c | Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me." | Steve Martin | ||
| 74399b4 | Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to be not so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7ee0b9b | I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits... however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ff24b9a | And sometimes when you witness a miracle it makes you believe that anything is possible. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| fc75d3c | Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home. | dystopian dystopian-fiction flawed perfection trust | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 83e1dce | however good it is, some love isn't meant to be for ever. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 51955a0 | I told you I'd find you. | love yes | Cecelia Ahern | |
| da94164 | memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there's a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable, | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f537e1a | Only the liar knows he's lying | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2022cbd | There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see. | Jodi Picoult |