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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."

"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."

"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."

"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."

"Every year when i travel around the world, i wonder if it'll be diferent, maybe one year won't come to the show or you'll be less festival, but what i realized during ARTPOP is that we belong together and some stories have no end. I will follow you around the world as long as you'll have me because i love making music, i love making art and i love, love meeting all you beautiful, creative people'."

"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."

"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
Explore more quotes by Haruki Murakami

"Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness."

"If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."

"Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going-people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward."

"I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off."

"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."

"All I know is I'm totallyalone. All alone i n an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it."

"The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be."

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."

"The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course."

"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it."
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