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“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“დიაღ, მაშინდელმა ინტელიგენციამ ვერ მოუარა თავის ერს, როგორც მისი სარგებლობა მოითხოვდა (ან კი როდის მოვუარეთ?), ვერ დააყენა საქმე ისე, როგორც გამოსადეგი იყო ჩვენთვის.
ეხლა ვინ უნდა უშველოს ხალხს? ვინ უნდა გამოიყვანოს იგი ამ ეკლიან ბარდიდან? – რა თქმა უნდა, ჩვენმა თვალახილებულმა ინტელიგენციამ, რომელიც ამ მხრივ დღეს არაფერს აკეთებს და არც შემდეგისთვის ფიქრობს რამე გააკეთოს. ჩვენმა ინტელიგენციამ, თუ შეიძლება ამგვარ ჰეროსტრატებს ინტელიგენცია დაარქვას კაცმა, ნაცვლად იმისა, ერისთვის ეჩვენებინა სწორე გზა ცხოვრებისა. ესწავლებინა თავის თავის მოვლა-პატრონობა, ქართველ კაცს ააღებინა ხელი თავის პიროვნებაზე, თავის თავზე,მოუკლა ეროვნული გრძნობა, დაუხშო ენერგია, დაუკეტა გზა თვითცნობიერებისაკენ......
ჩვენ კი ვუცდით გარედან მუჯლუგუნს, კისერში კისტებს. უცხო, გარეშე კაცის ატეხილს განგაშს: „ადე, ძმობილო, ადექი, გაიღვიძე, რა დაგმართნია, ჰხედავ რა ამბავია შენს თავსა, რამ დაგაჩლუნგა, რამ დაგაოჩნა“?! მანამდე კი უნდა გულზე ხელები დავიკრიფოთ, მივანდოთ ჩვენი თავი ბედსა და იღბალს…
გიკვირთ? მე არ მიკვირს.”
― ვაჟა-ფშაველა

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.”
― George Carlin

“God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.'

Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.

'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!'

'John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve.

Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb.

'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“ ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”
― François Mauriac

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.”
― Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
― Albert Camus

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
― Gerald Durrell

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey