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Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
34 Texts
1 Poem
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On Life:
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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On Freedom:
People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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On Memory:
You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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