"Iâ€™m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I canâ€™t really understand what it means. All I know is Iâ€™m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer whoâ€™s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I donâ€™t know, and I give up thinking about it."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Giving Up Quotes #Eye Quotes #Mean Quotes

“It's very hard, I think especially for women, to not take it in and to not be super conscious of the way that you're being seen, which is of course completely antithetical to the work you want to do, which is completely free and bold and truthful and honest and brave.”
“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”
“Some things are not meant to be kept forever... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything...'”
“As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.”
“In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.”
“Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.”
“A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.”
“It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.”

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