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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“When you decide to test for ‘future risk,’ you are also, inevitably, asking yourself, what kind of future am I willing to risk?”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“If you know the question, you know half.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science:”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“It is not what you have,” as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, “it is what you do with it.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“It took the full force of human genetics to bring sanity to the study of madness.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because of reactions that are barely possible.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

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

“Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Instead of a stable truth, I choose unstable possibilities.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“I couldn’t be sure if I had moved forward or fallen behind, or if I was just circling over the same spot.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“No matter how vivid a memory, the power of time was stronger. I knew this instinctively.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Nothing stayed still. And time was lost. Behind me, time became dead grains of sand, which one after another gave way and vanished.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Yet what was time, when you got right down to it? We measured its passage with the hands of a clock for convenience’s sake. But was that appropriate? Did time really flow in such a steady and linear way? Couldn’t this be a mistaken way of thinking, an error of major proportions?”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“maybe this world now was an extension of the dream, one I was shut up inside.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“You’re still young, so that’s why you say that. When you get to be my age, you’ll understand how I feel. How much loneliness the truth can cause sometimes.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Memory can give warmth to time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“I had to put my faith in time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“what hurt me was actually me, myself. In the midst of that continuing, unsettled silence my feelings, like a heavy pendulum, a razor-sharp blade,”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire