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#1

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

tags: inspirational, misattributed-haruki-murakami

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#2

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#3

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

6486 likes

#4

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

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#5

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: nagasawa

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#6

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#7

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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#8

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

tags: the-past

1016 likes

#9

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

1554 likes

#10

“She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.”
― Groucho Marx

139 likes

#11

“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

486 likes

#12

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17387 likes

#13

“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: everything, existential, existentialism, life, metaphor

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#14

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3055 likes

#15

“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: compensation, searching, seeking

592 likes

#16

“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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#17

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#18

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#19

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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#21

“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it”
― Yoko Ono

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#22

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

3684 likes

#23

“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

2351 likes

#24

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46565 likes

#25

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

26438 likes

#26

“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: adventures, comfort, contrast, freedom, meals, pain

764 likes

#27

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#28

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: family

1812 likes

#29

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

4457 likes

#30

“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

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