It’s all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
– Haruki Murakami
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- The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. – Haruki Murakami
- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. – Haruki Murakami
- Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- In dreams begins responsiblities. – Haruki Murakami
- Have books -˜happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is -˜yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you – Haruki Murakami
- a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime – Haruki Murakami
- When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
- The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves – Haruki Murakami
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
- Surfing’s a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent. – Haruki Murakami
- Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only. – Pearl Zhu
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can’t unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire. – Assegid Habtewold
- Its Barnum & Bailey world just as phony as it can be,But it would’t be make-believe if you believed in me – Haruki Murakami
- You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. – Haruki Murakami
- Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer’s alone. – Thomas C Foster
- Imagination is the power of attraction, when you want something you have to imagine it, to attract the thing to you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. – Haruki Murakami
- A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea – Haruki Murakami
- With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul. – Haruki Murakami
- Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself. – Haruki Murakami
- Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. – Haruki Murakami
- The real world-”where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere. – Haruki Murakami
- When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that’s the real world. – Haruki Murakami
- Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress? – Haruki Murakami
- It was a strange feeling, like touching a void. – Haruki Murakami
- Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I’ll do some thinking. Ob-”la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on. – Haruki Murakami
- She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start – Haruki Murakami
- Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound. – Haruki Murakami
- I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept. – Haruki Murakami
- You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them – Haruki Murakami
- All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness. – Haruki Murakami
- She was seriously in love, but she never made demands. – Haruki Murakami
- If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule. – Haruki Murakami
- Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. – Haruki Murakami
- Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems. – Haruki Murakami
- Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions. – Haruki Murakami