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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments."
Connection
"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."
Survival
"When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it."
Truth
"I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I'd date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn't what I want."
Relationship
"Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane."
Life
"If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever-something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen."
Emotion
"But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one."
Society
"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
Desire
"In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and critics' praise serve as outward standards for accomplishment in literature, but none of them really matter. What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. Failure to reach that bar is not something you can easily explain away. When it comes to other people, you can always come up with a reasonable explanation, but you can't fool yourself. In this sense, writing novels and running full marathons are very much alike."
Art
"Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. Things will go where they are supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it is time for them to be hurt. Life is like that."
Life
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