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  • #1
    Sally Rooney
    “It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #2
    Sally Rooney
    “No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    Anais Nin

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
    Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “In chaos, there is fertility.”
    Anais Nin

  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “Good things happen to those who hustle.”
    Anais Nin

  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #10
    Henry Miller
    “1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.
    2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
    3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
    4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
    5) When you can't create you can work.
    6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
    7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
    8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
    9) Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
    10) Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
    11) Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.”
    Henry Miller

  • #11
    Anaïs Nin
    “You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.”
    Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

  • #12
    Nicole  Lyons
    “I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.”
    Nicole Lyons, Hush

  • #13
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #14
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #15
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #18
    Gustave Flaubert
    “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #19
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
    Gustave Flaubert, November

  • #20
    Gustave Flaubert
    “One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #21
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

    (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #22
    Gustave Flaubert
    “It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

  • #23
    Gustave Flaubert
    “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #24
    Gustave Flaubert
    “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #25
    Gustave Flaubert
    “The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #26
    Erin McKean
    “You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
    Erin McKean

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #29
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

  • #30
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life



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