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Quotes by Japanese Authors
"Your wife is your life. Don't let strife thrive in your union."
"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."
"You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to."
"The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age."
"Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose."
"An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity."
"Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability."
"Don't let society fool you into believing that if you don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend then you're destined for a life of misery. The Dalai Lama has been single for the last 80 years and he is one of the happiest people on earth. Stop searching for happiness in places outside of yourself, and start finding it where it has always been: within you."
"Talk is cheap, action is expensive."
"Youths are our arrows to the future."
"Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how 'nice' a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions ."
"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it."
"For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient."
"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."
"That's my dream. It's always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it's just as scary as the last. It's so real, I feel as if I've already died hundreds of times."
"Well, the death of the body is the flight of the arrow. It's makin' a straight line for the brain. No dodgin' it not for anyone. People have't die, the body has't fall. Time is hurlin' that arrow forward. And yet, like I was sayin' thought goes on subdividin' that time for ever and ever. The paradox becomes real. The arrow never hits.In other words, immortality."
"We need feminism because degrading phrases like 'walk of shame' are commonplace in our social vocabulary, yet these are only applied to women; whereas men in the same situation are praised by their peers and seen as nothing more than ' a guy who got lucky', by the rest of society."
"Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system."
"To every guy who tries to say that we have already achieved equality for the sexes, if this were true, you wouldn't be told to 'man up', 'be a man', 'stop being a p*#%y', 'harden the fuck up', 'toughen up', 'boys don't cry', 'don't be such a girl', 'stop being a wimp'. As long as this type of language still exists in our society, then gender equality, my friends, has in fact not been achieved after all."
"I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move.""Because of her?"I nodded."
"She was seriously in love, but she never made demands."
"Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it."
"I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."
"Your believability influences your accessibility to possibilty."
"There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon."
"Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In aninstant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. Butif you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, justbarely for a few moments."
"It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other."
"Growth is never an event, it's a process."
"Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right."
"One sure way to excel in life, be fabulous and fantastic is to know your fears and deal with them with fierce."
"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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