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The Elephant Vanishes
by
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
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On Comprehension:
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
The Elephant Vanishes
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On Choice:
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
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On Memory:
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.
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On Reality:
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
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The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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