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“I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
― Haruki Murakami

“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about 'the Shadow' in one of his books: 'It is as evil as we are positive... the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
― Buddha

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
― Gautama Buddha

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.”
― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bull shit they teach you in school.”
― George Carlin

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou