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  • #1
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #2
    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    Wystan Hugh Auden

  • #3
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #4
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
    'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
    'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #5
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

  • #6
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    Albert Camus

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    Albert Camus

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    Albert Camus

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

  • #16
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

  • #17
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #18
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #19
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...
    'You never can tell...' he answered.
    'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
    'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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