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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
inscrutability
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Let the deadline of death drive you. Create until your last breath. Let your last spark of life go into your work. Die empty, so death takes only a corpse.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
—Hermann Hesse
A person who has a doppelganger, Freud wrote, “may identify himself with another and so become unsure of his true self.” He wasn’t right about everything, but he was right about that.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“I think it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote that one should never trust people who claim they’re normal. It’s in one of his novels.”