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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
― Anthony Burgess, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays

“Each man kills the thing he loves.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
― Franz Kafka

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
― Franz Kafka

“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”
― Franz Kafka

“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
― Johannes Kepler

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
― Albert Einstein

“Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
― Pierre Laplace

“My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.”
― Georg Cantor

“Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it.”
― Paul Lockhart , A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
― Blaise Pascal

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“ГЛАВАТА МИ -
кървав фенер с разтрошени стъкла,
загубен през вятър и дъжд, и мъгла
в полунощни поля.
Аз умирам под кота 506
и възкръсвам в Берлин и Париж.
Няма век, няма час - има Днес!
Над последната пролет ти жадно и страшно пищиш,
о шпага, разкъсала мрежа от кървави капки
сред мрака -
и в мрака
бог сляп ги
събира и мълком повежда към прежния призрак. . .
О Сфинкс, с безпощадна гримаса на присмех
- замръзнала, каменна, вечна и зла -
изправен в безкрайния, страшен, всемирен Египет:
пред тъмния просек Едип -
загубен през вятър и дъжд, и мъгла.”
― Гео Милев