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Murakami
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Quotes by Murakami
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Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that --by following language and a logic that appears consistent-- you're able to exclude that aspect of reality, but it will always be lying in wait for you, ready to take its revenge.
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Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tiene que fluir y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlos lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así. Parece que está aleccionandote, pero ya es hora de que aprendas a vivir de este modo.
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Se parece a lo que Dostoievski escribió sobre el juego. Es decir, cuando a tu alrededor todo son oportunidades, es muy difícil pasar de largo sin aprovecharlas.
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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.
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Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.
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If you are reading that everyone else is reading than you are knowing which everyone knows.