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“O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions.”

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Author:Haruki Murakami
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“Le persone, se ne hanno l'occasione, parlano di se usando espressioni di una franchezza sorprendente, del tipo: "Io sono talmente sincero e aperto da rendermi ridicolo", "Io sono troppo sensibile per trovarmi bene in un mondo come questo", "Io sono bravo a leggere nel cuore degli uomini". Ma mi è capitato molte volte di vedere persone "troppo sensibili" ferire gli altri senza alcuna necessità. E ho visto persone anche "sincere e aperte" usare la logica per imporre i propri interessi, senza neanche esserne consapevoli. Ho visto infine persone "brave a leggere nel cuore degli uomini" lasciarsi ingannare senza sforzo da adulatori visibilmente insinceri. A questo punto mi sembra naturale chiedersi che cosa ognuno di noi alla fin fine conosca di se stesso.”

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Book:Sputnik Sweetheart
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“oğunlukla dürüst bir insanımdır. Anladığım zaman anladım, anlamadığım zaman da net olarak anlamadım derim. İkircikli ifadeler kullanmam. Sorunların büyük kısmının ikircikli ifadeler yüzünden çıktığına inanırım. İnsanların çoğunun ikircikli ifadeler kullanmasını, onların aslında içten içe, bilinçsizce de olsa, sorun çıkmasını arzu etmelerine bağlarım. Başka türlü düşünebilmem mümkün değil.”

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Book:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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“Katkada je sudbina kao mala pješčana oluja koja stalno mijenja smjer. Ti promijeniš smjer, ali pješčana te oluja progoni. Opet skreneš, ali oluja se prilagodi. Neprekidno se tako igraš, kao u nekakvu zlosutnom plesu sa smrti točno prije zore. Zašto? Zato što ta oluja nije nešto što je zapuhalo iz daljine, nešto što nema nikakve veze s tobom. Ta oluja si ti. Nešto unutar tebe. Tako je sve što možeš učiniti to da joj se predaš, da stupiš upravo unutar te oluje, sklopivši oči i začepivši uši da u njih ne ulazi pijesak, i kroz nju ideš, korak po korak. Tu nema sunca, ni mjeseca, ni pravca, ni osjećaja vremena. Samo fini pijesak što se kovitla u nebo kao kosti samljevene u prah. To je vrsta pješčane oluje koju trebaš zamisliti. I doista ćeš se morati probijati kroz tu silovitu, metafizičku, simboličnu oluju. Bez obzira koliko metafizička ili simbolična bila, nemoj se zavaravati: ona će se zasijecati u meso kao tisuću oštrica britve. Ljudi će u njoj krvariti, i ti ćeš krvariti. Vrelom, crvenom krvlju. Hvatat ćeš tu krv u šake, vlastitu krv i tuđu krv. A kada jednom oluja prođe nećeš se sjećati kako si uspio preživjeti. Nećeš biti ni siguran, zapravo, je li oluja stvarno prošla. Ali jedna stvar je izvjesna. Kad izađeš iz oluje nećeš biti ista ona osoba koja je u nju ušla.”

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“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets, college kids were planning their next ski trip and discussing the new Police album. We could have been in any city in Japan. Transplant this coffee shop scene to Yokohama or Fukuoka and nothing would seem out of place. In spite of which -- or, rather, all the more because -- here I was, sitting in this coffee shop, drinking my coffee, feeling a desperate loneliness. I alone was the outsider. I had no place here. Of course, by the same token, I couldn't really say I belonged to Tokyo and its coffee shops. But I had never felt this loneliness there. I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself.”

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Book:Dance Dance Dance
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“And another important fact was this-I was not seeking all of her. Her entire being wouldn't fit, perhaps, in the small box I pos- sessed now. I was no longer a seventeen-year-old boy. Back then, I had all the time in the world. But not now. The time I have now, and the ways I can use it, have become so limited. What I sought now was the gentle warmth that lay inside, beneath her defensive wall. And the rhythmic beat of the heart that lay pulsing beneath. At this point was I asking for too little? Or too much?”

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Book:The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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“And another important fact was this-I was not seeking all of her. Her entire being wouldn't fit, perhaps, in the small box I possessed now. I was no longer a seventeen-year-old boy. Back then, I had all the time in the world. But not now. The time I have now, and the ways I can use it, have become so limited. What I sought now was the gentle warmth that lay inside, beneath her defensive wall. And the rhythmic beat of the heart that lay pulsing beneath. At this point was I asking for too little? Or too much?”

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Book:The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”

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Book:Kafka on the Shore
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“Bir şekilde her birimiz hayatımıza devam ediyoruz, diye düşündüm. Ne kadar büyük ve ciddi bir kayıp yaşasak da, ne denli önemli bir şey elimizden alınmış olsa da ya da sadece üzerimizdeki deri aynı kalıp kendimiz tamamıyla farklı bir insana dönüşmüş olsak da, sessizce yaşamımızı sürdürüyoruz. Bizim için belirlenmiş zamanın sonuna doğru gittikçe yaklaşıyor, ardımızda bıraktığımız zaman dilimi uzaklaşıp kaybolurken ona veda ediyoruz. Gündelik hayatın sonu gelmez işini gücünü tekrar tekrar -bazı durumlarda büyük bir beceriyle- yaparak. Böyle düşününce büyük bir boşluk duygusuna kapıldım.”

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Book:Sputnik Sweetheart
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“Cada vez que voy a participar en un maratón, paso más o menos por el mismo proceso mental: hasta el kilómetro 30 pienso ‘puede que esta vez haga un buen tiempo’, pero al superar el kilómetro 35 se me va agotando el combustible y empiezo a enfadarme con todo lo que me circunda. Y, al final, me siento exactamente como un coche que sigue corriendo con el depósito vacío. Sin embargo, poco después de dejar de correr, todo lo que he sufrido y todo lo miserable que me he sentido se me olvidan, como si jamás hubieran sucedido, y ya vuelvo a estar decidido a hacerlo mejor la próxima vez. Por más experiencia que adquiera, por más años de edad que acumule, al final siempre se repite lo mismo”.”

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Book:What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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“Cuando una persona quiere alcanzar algo piensa de manera espontánea en tres cosas: ¿qué he conseguido hasta el momento? ¿En qué posición me encuentro ahora?¿Qué debo hacer de aquí en adelante? Si uno no puede contestar a esas tres cosas, sólo le queda el miedo, la falta de confianza en sí mismo y el cansancio. Y precisamente en esa situación me encontraba yo.”

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Book:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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“Of course, winning is much better than losing. No argument there. But winning or losing doesn’t affect the weight and value of the time. It’s the same time, either way. A minute is a minute, an hour is an hour. We need to cherish it. We need to deftly reconcile ourselves with time, and leave behind as many precious memories as we can -that’s what’s the most valuable.”

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Book:First Person Singular: Stories
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