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Mean Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh…
- Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.
- My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street…
- Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all…
- Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence…
- I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to…
- So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They…
- No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's…
- These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the…
- Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at…
- I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it…
- I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some…
- I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark…
- I don’t know what it means to live.
- Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what…
- You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically,…
- you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go…
- In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she…
- For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and…
- You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
- As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And…
- Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody…
- Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about…
- Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something…
- I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I…
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- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams