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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e0fcfe1 | They take the circuits out of people's brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I'm sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don't have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 07a0b83 | My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cdb8a41 | When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody. | haruki-murakami i loneliness lonely past remembrance | Haruki Murakami | |
| f383c59 | Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. | hard-boiled-wonderland haruki-murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| 6bda802 | It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring. | life life-philosophy lifestyle personal personalities personality | Haruki Murakami | |
| c63f7bd | It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention." | norwegian-wood | Haruki Murakami | |
| ce81d69 | If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7bee142 | In real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| fdceaef | People with dark hearts have dark dreams. Those whose hearts are even darker can't dream at all. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d0a9f1a | Never being constrained, thinking about things freely--that's what you're hoping for?" "Exactly." "But it seems to me that thinking about things freely can't be easy." "It means leaving behind your physical body. Leaving the cage of your physical flesh, breaking free of the chains, and letting pure logic soar free. Giving a natural life to logic. That's the core of free thought." "It doesn't sound easy." Haida shook his head. "No, depending.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 837e293 | When the time comes, everybody's got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn't have a place to call my own. It's like musical chairs. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ea982f3 | What's more, you're loads better than you think you are." "So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled. "That's because you're only half-living." she said briskly. "The other half is still untapped somewhere." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cb9058b | The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. | flee flight haruki-murakami imagination imagine japan japanese murakami reality the-wind-up-bird-chronicle | Haruki Murakami | |
| cebc79e | Tell me something, Mari--do you believe in reincarnation?" Mari shakes her head. "No, I don't think so," she says. "So you don't think there's a life to come?" "I haven't thought much about it. But it seems to me there's no reason to believe in a life after this one." "So once you're dead there's just nothing?" "Basically." "Well, I think there has to be something like reincarnation. Or maybe I should say I'm scared to think there isn't.. | nothingness reincarnation | Haruki Murakami | |
| a26e0b6 | When I thought of how I'd been living, how I'd been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish, and I wanted to gather it all up and stuff it away in some drawer. Or else light it on fire and watch it go up in smoke (though what kind of smoke it would emit I had no idea). | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ea15748 | She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me. | emotional norwegian-wood | Haruki Murakami | |
| 9818625 | Far away a crow caws. The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details there are dreams. And everyone's living in them. | murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| e1862f1 | How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0b5cca4 | Sometimes you're just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer holidays and a brand-new puppy all rolled into one. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0f448c3 | Naoko took her left hand from her pocket and squeezed my hand. 'Don't worry,' she said. 'You'll be O.K. could go running all around here in the middle of the night and you'd fall into the well. And as long as I stick with you, I won't fall in, either.' Never?' Never!' How can you be so sure?' I just know,' she said, increasing her grip on my hand and continuing on for a ways in silence. 'I know these things. I'm always right. It's got.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2b10c6a | You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture. | slef-healing | Haruki Murakami | |
| 67a72fa | My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm. | help | Haruki Murakami | |
| 9cfd5fe | You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 144d3ae | Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of mathematics. Why should that have been? After much deep thought, he reached a conclusion. No matter how clear the relationships of things might become in the forest of .. | mathematics novels reading | Haruki Murakami | |
| c3c9867 | I just put my heart into it. That's the difference. It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something, you can do it, up to a point. If you really work at being happy, you can do it, up to a point...Anything more than that is luck. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0184b3a | I'm struck by how pitiful and pointless this little container called is, what a lame, shabby being I am. I feel like everything I've ever done in life has been a total waste. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b6f6b7e | When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up. | nagasawa | Haruki Murakami | |
| ba64010 | The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book. | individuals singularity | Haruki Murakami | |
| cf06068 | In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass -but slowly, taking its own time, and leav.. | heart magnolias may pain trembling | Haruki Murakami | |
| f307bf3 | Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 980044c | It felt like he'd been dragged through the nine circles of hell -- by his testicles. | erotica fantasy humor m-m-paranormal m-m-romance | Kay Berrisford | |
| 9dd58d3 | In the words of Heisenberg, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 089a674 | However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking." | Laurie R. King | ||
| 864554d | The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 82099eb | joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 14a0916 | I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b40f4da | It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity. | posterity | Alexandre Dumas | |
| b80aea6 | Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 4cda592 | I'm going to heaven! I replied. -What do you mean, you're going to heaven? -Let me pass. -And what will you do in heaven, my poor child? -I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy. | death god revenge | Tom Reiss | |
| 8c1c37a | It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d5320e8 | Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c0c935c | There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start. | humor school | Frank Portman | |
| 7842c42 | It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. | good sleep | Woody Allen | |
| a5bd060 | Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home? | ending journey quest | Tahir Shah |