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  • #1
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

  • #2
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #3
    David Hume
    “Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
    David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  • #4
    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #5
    Immanuel Kant
    “Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
    Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

  • #6
    Plato
    “Why, a dog, whenever he sees a stranger, is angry; when an acquaintance, he welcomes him, although the one has never done him any harm, nor the other any good. Did this never strike you as curious? The matter never struck me before; but I quite recognise the truth of your remark. And surely this instinct of the dog is very charming;—your dog is a true philosopher. Why? Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing. And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance? Most”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #7
    Sarah Winman
    “There's something about first love, isn't there? she said. It's untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it's the measure of all that follows.”
    Sarah Winman, Tin Man
    tags: love

  • #8
    Rick Yancey
    “I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
    Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

  • #9
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #10
    Pablo Neruda
    “I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #11
    Louise Erdrich
    “The door is open. Go.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

  • #12
    Victoria Schwab
    “Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #13
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #14
    Emil M. Cioran
    “Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”
    Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn't be happy to make another start.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #16
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #17
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “The Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #18
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #19
    Donna Tartt
    “Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #20
    Donna Tartt
    “Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me than men had walked on the moon. “No,” he said, putting down his fork.
    “It’s true,” chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way.
    “I don’t believe it.”
    “I saw it,” said Bunny. “It was on television.”
    “How did they get there? When did this happen?"
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #21
    Donna Tartt
    “I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #22
    Donna Tartt
    “After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #23
    Donna Tartt
    “The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #24
    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #25
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #26
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #27
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #29
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

  • #30
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Existence precedes essence”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism



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