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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #2
    Jack Kerouac
    “It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”
    Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

  • #3
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
    Arthur Rimbaud

  • #4
    Franz Kafka
    “Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #5
    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #6
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
    Bertholt Brecht

  • #7
    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #8
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

  • #11
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #15
    R.D. Laing
    “Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
    Ronald D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

  • #16
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #17
    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

  • #18
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Silence is sometimes the best answer”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #19
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #20
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #21
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Hay momentos para recitar poesías y hay momentos para boxear.”
    Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

  • #22
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #23
    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #24
    William Gibson
    “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
    William Gibson, Neuromancer

  • #25
    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    William Gibson

  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with their liberal allowance of time.”
    David Henry Thoreau

  • #28
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #30
    Immanuel Kant
    “Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
    Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals



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