"Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: Thatâ€™s it. Thatâ€™s my heart."

-- Haruki Murakami

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“Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!”
“The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs.”
“For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.244, Vintage
“It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.”
“A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.”
“I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.”
“I think this is very applicable to men and women - that they are looking for love in all the wrong places.”

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