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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
– Haruki Murakami

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  1. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami
  2. Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained. – Olivia Sudjic
  3. When character is lost, nothing is lost; when wealth is lost, something is lost; but when health is lost, everything is lost. – Tapan Ghosh
  4. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
  5. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
  6. Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. – Haruki Murakami
  7. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. – Alfred Adler
  8. Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering. – Steven Redhead
  9. Putting it into words will destroy any meaning. – Haruki Murakami
  10. My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning. – Haruki Murakami
  11. Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained. – GK Chesterton
  12. Have your dream…What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) – Haruki Murakami
  13. Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us. – Haruki Murakami
  14. I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. – Haruki Murakami
  15. You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
  16. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  17. But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none. – David Cronenberg
  18. I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. – Haruki Murakami
  19. There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. – Haruki Murakami
  20. It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words – all the words that did not say things directly – were for him the most truthful. – Richard Flanagan
  21. Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. – Charlotte Lamb
  22. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? – Haruki Murakami
  23. When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost. – Haruki Murakami
  24. Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end. – Haruki Murakami
  25. At some point paradise would be lost. – Haruki Murakami
  26. Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you’ve lost forever. There is only now. – Jeanette Winterson
  27. Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
  28. MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
  29. Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
  30. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
  31. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. – Haruki Murakami
  32. a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime – Haruki Murakami
  33. With each passing moment I’m becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. – Haruki Murakami
  34. History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself. – Haruki Murakami
  35. What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities. – Haruki Murakami
  36. Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair. – Haruki Murakami
  37. All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness. – Haruki Murakami
  38. 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
  39. Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems. – Haruki Murakami
  40. (Emerson’s) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. – Micah Mattix

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