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“Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― Paul Éluard

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
― Walter Benjamin

“The meaning of life is that it ends”
― Franz Kafka

“Tko srce dava, svega sebe dava.”
― Marin Držić, Skup

“I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah”
― Leonard Cohen

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
― Walt Kelly

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
― Franz Kafka

“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

“One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark”
― Franz Kafka

“I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore
written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen,
and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

“The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”
― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.”
― Jorge Luis Borges