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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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Smrt postoji ne kao suprotnost života već kao njegov deo.
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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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Incomprehensible people all around me doing incomprehensible things.
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Put a tiger on your tank
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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.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.