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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    3683 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: endurance, life, loss, love
    2353 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Haruki Murakami
    “No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: death, sorrow
    1502 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: hurting-the-one-you-love, norwegian-wood, toru-watanabe
    1287 likes

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  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    1038 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: haruki-murakami, norwegian-wood
    833 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
    tags: chance, help, unexpected
    264 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
    tags: ecology, interdependence, worth
    250 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
    69 likes

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  • #15
    William Gibson
    “Things aren't different. Things are things.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: philosophical
    79 likes

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    William Gibson
    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: first-lines
    927 likes

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  • #17
    William Gibson
    “When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
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  • #18
    William Gibson
    “We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
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  • #19
    William Gibson
    “Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Dar-
    winism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb
    permanently on the fast-forward button.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: neuromancer
    59 likes

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  • #20
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    8352 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: humor, semantics, suspicion
    4594 likes

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  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    2660 likes

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  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    1875 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where there's life there's hope.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    1800 likes

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  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21822 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
    58027 likes

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  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12468 likes

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  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
    11350 likes



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