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Quotes by Japanese Authors

"Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent."
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Haruki Murakami
"Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent."
"It is not the size of a person in the fight, but the size of the fight in a person is what determines victory."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"It is not the size of a person in the fight, but the size of the fight in a person is what determines victory."
"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."
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Haruki Murakami
"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."
"Ships passing in broad daylight."
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Haruki Murakami
"Ships passing in broad daylight."
"You greatest gift is who you are, not just what you do."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"You greatest gift is who you are, not just what you do."
"That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way."
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Haruki Murakami
"That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way."
"I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love."
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Haruki Murakami
"I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love."
"I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
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Haruki Murakami
"I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
"Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible."
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Haruki Murakami
"Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible."
"Your best - no matter how great - isnothing if you minus God from theequation."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Your best - no matter how great - isnothing if you minus God from theequation."
"Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama."
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Haruki Murakami
"Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama."
"Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. Walls. A world completely surrounded by walls."
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Haruki Murakami
"Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. Walls. A world completely surrounded by walls."
"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."
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Haruki Murakami
"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."
"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."
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Haruki Murakami
"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."
"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."
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Haruki Murakami
"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."
"Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'(from Honey Pie)"
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Haruki Murakami
"Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'(from Honey Pie)"
"For our society to be better, we must revive our conscience and do Godly things."
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"For our society to be better, we must revive our conscience and do Godly things."
"Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment."
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Dogen Zenji
"Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment."
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