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“Όλα μπορεί κανείς να τα συγχωρέσει σ' έναν άνθρωπο, της έλεγα, τη χυδαιότητά του, τη βλακεία του, όλα εκτός από την ανία που σου προκαλεί.”
― Pascal Bruckner

“Όταν φύγουν πια όλα τα εμπόδια, ο πόθος χάνει την ουσία του. Γιατί ο πόθος είναι γέννημα της πονηριάς: αγαπάει τους πλάγιους δρόμους της παρανομίας, η ευθεία γραμμή τον κουράζει.”
― Pascal Bruckner

“Η μοναξιά μες στο ζευγάρι είναι πολύ μεγαλύτερη απ' τη μοναξιά του μοναχικού.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon

“Είχα διαλέξει το κακό επειδή ήταν βολικό, γιατί προτιμούσα να είμαι κάτι παρά τίποτα.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon

“Τι είναι ένα ζευγάρι; Η απάρνηση της ζωής με αντάλλαγμα την ασφάλεια, το άχαρο πρόσωπο του νόμιμου έρωτα.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. [...] This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...]
I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.”
― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is - in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet.
We move with eyes shut and ears stopped; we smash walls where doors are waiting to open to the touch; we grope for ladders, forgetting that we have wings; we pray as if God were deaf and blind, as if He were in a space. No wonder the angels in our midst are unrecognizable.
One day it will be pleasant to remember these things.”
― Henry Miller

“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that, as I said therein, if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one’s whole being, is that you alone control nothing.”
― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence is an imperfection.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Some of these days,
Oh, you'll miss me honey”
― Sartre, Jean-Paul

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.”
― Milan Kundera

“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“You are beautiful," he said, "But I will have to leave you.”
― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

“Dictionary of Misunderstood Words”
― Milan Kundera

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”
― Arthur Schopenhauer