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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever.

The Road
The psychoanalysis is like a detective story.

Interview (2014)
The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.
The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.

The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

1Q84
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Kafka on the Shore
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