I'm sure we've all experienced really malevolent feelings once or twice in our lives, the desire to kill somebody,say.but there's always a braking mechanism somewhere along the line that stop us.


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Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom...
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No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...
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Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by ...
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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled ...
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
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Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th...
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Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never b...
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sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.
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Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French ...
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Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
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Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people.
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We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ...
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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ...
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If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
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Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q...
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte...
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Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr...
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When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus...
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We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...
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I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis...
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All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori...
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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope...
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And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH...
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...
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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...
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I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...
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I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
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Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means...
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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
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Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for...
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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec...
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
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She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But...
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sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o...
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Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
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Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate...
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I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t...
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Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
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I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
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Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
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Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
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But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
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The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
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I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
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Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
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No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
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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 ...
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I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
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