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    Haruki Murakami
    “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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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: nagasawa
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Haruki Murakami
    “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
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
    ― Haruki Murakami
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    Haruki Murakami
    “In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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    Haruki Murakami
    “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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    Cassandra Clare
    “People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: bad, good, life
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    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42803 likes

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    Maureen Johnson
    “Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”
    ― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
    tags: tiredness
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    Steve Almond
    “It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.”
    ― Steve Almond, My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
    tags: life, nostalgia
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    Gerry Burnie
    “My looks are other peoples' problem because I don't have to look at myself.”
    ― Gerry Burnie, Nor All Thy Tears: Journey to Big Sky
    tags: 1960s-nostalgia, gay-historical-ficion, m-f-m-romantic-fiction
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
    tags: collecting, love, museum, nostalgia, space, time
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...”
    ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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    George MacDonald
    “Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
    ― George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede
    tags: leisure, meditation, solitude
    349 likes

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

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
    tags: death, life
    2066 likes

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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
    tags: love, poem, relationships, romance
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    Denis Leary
    “Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list! ”
    ― Dennis Lear
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    Jack Kerouac
    “So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: music, poetry
    25 likes

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  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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