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#1

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

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#2

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami

tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories

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#3

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: longing, love

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#4

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#5

“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.”
― Murakami, Haruki

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#6

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#7

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#8

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: clock, future, past, possibilities, ticking, time

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#9

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#10

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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#11

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: endurance, life, loss, love

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#12

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: happiness, love

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#13

“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#14

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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