Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear,
scattered into the blackness of time.
    -- Banana Yoshimoto, <i>Kitchen</i>
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All he had ever prayed for was the ability to catch
outfield flies, in answer to which God had bestowed
upon him a penis that was bigger than anybody else's.
What kind of world came up with such idiotic
bargains?
    -- Haruki Murakami,
       <i>All God's Children Can Dance</i>
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She was getting to be more and more like our mother.
Women are like salmon: In the end, they all swim back
to the same place.
    -- Haruki Murakami, <i>Family Affair</i>
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"I'm not going to die with you just because you made
 lunch for me. Of course, if it had been dinner..."
    -- Toru: Haruki Murakami's <i>Norwegian Wood</i>
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is
 whether or not you clean up the shit."
    -- Midori: Haruki Murakami's <i>Norwegian Wood</i>
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"The futher you travel along a narrow path,
 the wider it becomes."
    -- Japanese aesthetic maxim
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"Come down off the cross
 We can use the wood
 Come on up to the house"
    -- Tom Waits, <i>Come On Up To The House</i>
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"Some people live 90 years...and some people live one year 90 times. Which
one do you want to be?"
    -- Manifestis3 from ASF
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"Sperms make no contribution at all and are simply concerned with
 transporting their genes as fast as possible to an egg."
    -- what I think is a funny quote,
       from Richard Dawkins' <i>The Selfish Gene</i>
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"If you meet the buddha, kill the buddha."
    -- Lin-chi
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"Water which is too pure has no fish."
    -- Ts'ai Ken T'an
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"Thinking is more important than knowing, but less interesting than
 looking."
    -- Goethe
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<i>I ain't nobody's personal Jesus.</i>
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<i>Do each thing in life as if you were trying to impress your kids.</i>
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"Do you know that a woman is capable of inflicting unspeakable cruelties
 and mockeries on a man without once feeling any qualms of conscience,
 because every time she is thinking to herself as she is looking at you:
 <i>I'm driving him to distraction now, but I shall make up for it later
 with my love....</i>"
    -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, <i>The Idiot</i>
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"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust
 in ideas, and not in circumstances."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What is unbearable in life is not <i>being</i> but <i>being one's self</i>."
    -- Milan Kundera, <i>Immortality</i>
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"Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death."
    -- Milan Kundera, <i>Immortality</i>
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"It is part of the definition of feeling that it is born in us
 without our will, often against our will. As soon as we <i>want</i>
 to feel (<i>decide</i> to feel, just as Don Quixote decided to love
 Dulcinea), feeling is no longer feeling but an imitation of feeling,
 a show of feeling."
    -- Milan Kundera, <i>Immortality</i>
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
    -- Johann van Goethe
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
    -- Voltaire
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"Well, there's no difficulty in marrying a person: one could do
 it any time. He might marry her to-morrow, and perhaps, murder
 her a week later."
    -- Prince Myshkin: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, <i>The Idiot</i>
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"If you're not using autoconf when building your programs, you
 can skip this section, and you have my condolences."
   -- Guile FAQ v1.1
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"Reforms must be done without regard for sacred cows."
   -- Junichiro Koizumi, on deregulation (4/2001)
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"Sometimes, nothing's a pretty cool hand."
   -- Luke in <i>Cool Hand Luke</i>
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"What a man had to go through for a piece of ass in
 the modern age was highly ridiculous."
   -- Apollo 440, <i>Tears of the Gods</i>
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<i>Your daddy must have been retarded cause you're special.</i>
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<i>Under the glow of the monitor... and he put pasta on my head.</i>