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#1

“Nothing is ever certain.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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#2

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

tags: art, dreams, inspirational, nightmares, painting

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“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

tags: loss, mourning

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“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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#5

“The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#6

“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#7

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
― Malcolm X

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#8

“Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animals, chicken, factory-farms, vegetarianism

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#10

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#11

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: ignored, loneliness

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#12

“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: attraction

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#13

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life, mistakes, regret

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#14

“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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#15

“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought

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#16

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
― Akira Kurosawa

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#17

“When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic wheel of Indian mythology that kills every living thing in its path.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: love, waiting

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#19

“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

tags: betrayal, hurt, pain, trust

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#20

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#21

“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

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#22

“The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: god, groaning, ignorance, know, mourning, pain, people, principles, world

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#23

“In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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#24

“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: betrayal, broken-promise, trust

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#25

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: chords, edge, emptiness, loop, signs, space, substance, world

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#26

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
― Arthur Miller

tags: betrayal, friendship, reality

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#27

“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: That’s it. That’s my heart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: fiction, storyteller

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#28

“In the daylight we know
what’s gone is gone,
but at night it’s different.
Nothing gets finished,
not dying, not mourning;”
― Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House: Poems

tags: death, dream, dreams, dying, grief, mourning, nightmare, nightmares

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#29

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#30

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: writing

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