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  • #1
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #2
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #4
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #6
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Prostitution is the admission of the fact that in some cases all the man wants from the woman is sex; and/or all the woman wants from the man is money.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy

  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy

  • #14
    Paulo Coelho
    “Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds.
    Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness.
    Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy

  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see the whole and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guilt, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it’s right.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy

  • #16
    Paulo Coelho
    “Even the tallest trees are able to grow from tiny seeds like these. Remember this, and try not to rush time.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy
    tags: time

  • #17
    Paulo Coelho
    “You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: "You could try something else.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy

  • #18
    Paulo Coelho
    “...it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Spy

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #20
    Maimonides
    “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
    Maimonides

  • #21
    Fernando Pessoa
    “We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #22
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #24
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #26
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski, Post Office

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “there are worse things
    than being alone
    but it often takes
    decades to realize this
    and most often when you do
    it's too late
    and there's nothing worse
    than too late”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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