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“Equations are the devil's sentences.”
― Stephen Colbert

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”
― Franz Kafka

“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
― Franz Kafka

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

“What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. ”
― Franz Kafka

“Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.”
― Franz Kafka

“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”
― Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

“You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.”
― Franz Kafka

“I lack nothing. I only needed myself.”
― Franz Kafka

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

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

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person”
― Marcel Proust

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“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

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

“To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running