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Rousseau defined civilization...

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

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It's a terrible thing when a ...

It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

Listen - God only exists in p...

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

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Were the stars out when I lef...

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn’t have known.

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Who can really distinguish be...

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

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I never trust people with no ...

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

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Time, of course, topples ever...

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

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Was the earth put here just t...

Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

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My peak? Would I even have on...

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

Two-thirds of earth's surface...

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

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Time really is one big contin...

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

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This may be the most importan...

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

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I wasn't particularly afraid ...

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

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Life's no piece of cake, mind...

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

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Sometimes we don't need words...

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)

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Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ me...

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 if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It’s just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.

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Whatever can't be expressed m...

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

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Ordinary imperfect people, al...

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

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Sometimes we don't need words...

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

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If we reverse the outer shell...

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....