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  • #1
    Ronald Wright
    “If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.”
    Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

  • #2
    Ronald Wright
    “Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”
    Ronald Wright

  • #3
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #4
    Julian Barnes
    “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #5
    Julian Barnes
    “The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #6
    Tara Westover
    “The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. I'm fine, you think. So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. I'm not falling apart. I'm just lazy. Why it's better to think yourself lazy than think yourself in distress, I'm not sure. But it was better. More than better: it was vital.”
    Tara Westover, Educated

  • #7
    Caleb Azumah Nelson
    “What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
    At some point, you must breathe.”
    Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

  • #8
    Ling  Ma
    “A second chance doesn't mean you're in the clear. In many ways, it is the more difficult thing. Because a second chance means that you have to try harder. You must rise to the challenge without the blind optimism of ignorance.”
    Ling Ma, Severance

  • #9
    Caleb Azumah Nelson
    “You wish you had the words, no, you wish you had the courage to climb up from whatever pit you have fallen into, but right now, you do not.”
    Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

  • #10
    Gabriela  Garcia
    “That there are no real rules that govern why some are born in turmoil and others never know a single day in which the next seems an ill-considered bet. It’s all lottery, Ana, all chance. It’s the flick of a coin, and we are born.”
    Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

  • #11
    bell hooks
    “As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
    bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

  • #12
    bell hooks
    “Many women do not join organized resis­tance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppres­sion. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme re­strictions leads many women to ignore the areas in which they are exploited or discriminated against; it may even lead them to imagine that no women are oppressed.”
    bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

  • #13
    bell hooks
    “education was about the practice of freedom.”
    bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

  • #14
    bell hooks
    “To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
    bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #15
    Richard Powers
    “What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
    Richard Powers, The Overstory

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #18
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The sun is a thief: she lures the sea
    and robs it. The moon is a thief:
    he steals his silvery light from the sun.
    The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #19
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “We are most artistically caged.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #20
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “A thousand years ago five minutes were
    Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
    Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
    Infinite aftertime: above your head
    They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #21
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “There was a time in my demented youth
    When somehow I suspected that the truth
    About survival after death was known
    To every human being: I alone
    Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
    Of books and people hid the truth from me.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #22
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
    By the false azure in the windowpane;
    I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
    Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
    And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate
    Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate:
    Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass
    Hang all the furniture above the grass,
    And how delightful when a fall of snow
    Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
    As to make chair and bed exactly stand
    Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #23
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The lost glove is happy.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #24
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #25
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #26
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

  • #27
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

  • #28
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

  • #29
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #30
    Liu Cixin
    “To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”
    Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem



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