Speechifyin’
Posted on February 18, 2009 by Tito
Haruki Murakami, in his acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize.
I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the individual soul to the surface and shine a light upon it.
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Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The System has no such thing. We must not allow The System to exploit us. We must not allow The System to take on a life of its own. The System did not make us: We made The System.
Of course, the entire speech is worth reading.
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