Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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