"I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself."

-- Haruki Murakami

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“I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.”
“I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.”

Source : "Of Law and Life & Other Things That Matter: Papers and Addresses of Felix Frankfurter, 1956-1963". Book edited by Philip B Kurland, February 5, 1965.
“I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.”
“People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.”
“The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.”
“I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!”
“Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28”
“One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.”

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