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“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
― David Lynch

“In a sense, fear is the daughter of God, redeemed on Good Friday. She is not beautiful, mocked, cursed or disowned by all. But don’t be mistaken, she watches over all mortal agony, she intercedes for mankind; for there is a rule and an exception. Culture is the rule, and art is the exception. Everybody speaks the rule; cigarette, computer, t-shirt, television, tourism, war. Nobody speaks the exception. It isn’t spoken, it is written; Flaubert, Dostoyevsky. It is composed; Gershwin, Mozart. It is painted; Cézanne, Vermeer. It is filmed; Antonioni, Vigo. Or it is lived, then it is the art of living; Srebrenica, Mostar, Sarajevo. The rule is to want the death of the exception. So the rule for cultural Europe is to organise the death of the art of living, which still flourishes.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Was it you that killed me, or did I kill you?" Abel answered. "I don't remember anymore; here we are, together, like before."

"Now I know that you have truly forgiven me," Cain said, "because forgetting is forgiving. I, too, will try to forget.”
― Jorge Luis Borges Legend

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“თურმე თავხედებად იმდენნი არ იბადებიან, რამდენნიც მერე ხდებიან. თვითონ კი არ ხდებიან, ჩვენ ვაქცევთ თავხედებად: ქალი იქნება თუ კაცი, ერთხელ ინსტინქტურად რომ ჩაიდენს თავხედობას და ამას მორიდებული, ხათრიანი კაცის მიმართ იზამს, ეს კაცი, თავის ზნეობრივი მონაცემებიდან გამომდინარე, თავხედობას შეარჩენს. მეორედ სხვა სიტუაციაშიც შეიძლება ასე გამოუვიდეს. მესამედაც. ტუტუცი კია, მაგრამ მიხვდება, - თავხედობა ცხოვრებას აადვილებსო, და სიკვდილამდე თავხედი იქნება. ბავშვს ჰკითხეს, რა გატირებსო? გამიდის და ვტირიო!”
― ჭაბუა ამირეჯიბი, დათა თუთაშხია

“Between grief and nothing I will take grief.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...”
― Jean-Pierre Melville

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose