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  • #1
    Tatsuki Fujimoto
    “I think... It would be good to erase boring movies from existence.
    Hmm... Then I've got no choice but to kill you.”
    Tatsuki Fujimoto, チェンソーマン 11 [Chainsaw Man 11]

  • #2
    “Did copyright exist for one's life, too?
    But, was it okay to describe one's life as a 'work of an author'?”
    Singshong (싱숑)

  • #3
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #4
    Charlie Jane Anders
    “People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.”
    Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

  • #5
    Jacques Roubaud
    “Who will wake up at the end of my dream?”
    Jacques Roubaud

  • #6
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #11
    Cathy Park Hong
    “Innocence is both a privilege and a cognitive handicap, a sheltered unknowingness that, once protracted into adulthood, hardens into entitlement.”
    Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

  • #12
    Alice Oseman
    “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #13
    Maureen Johnson
    “The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.”
    Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

  • #14
    Roxane Gay
    “We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we’ll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.”
    Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

  • #15
    R.F. Kuang
    “I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

  • #16
    R.F. Kuang
    “War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war

  • #17
    Mary Oliver
    “I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #20
    “Are not flowers the stars of the earth?”
    Clara Lucas Balfour

  • #21
    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #22
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #23
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #24
    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #25
    Franz Kafka
    “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

  • #26
    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #29
    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
    Franz Kafka



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