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“Εξειδίκευση είναι η διέξοδος της άγνοιας προς μίαν κατεύθυνσιν.”
― Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Είτε βραδιάζει
είτε φέγγει
μένει λευκό
το γιασεμί.”
― George Seferis

“Τούτη η κολόνα
έχει μια τρύπα, βλέπεις
την Περσεφόνη;”
― George Seferis

“Δεν έχει μάτια
Τα φίδια που κρατούσε
Της τρων τα χέρια.”
― George Seferis

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

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

“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."

[Funeral Oration of Pericles]”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“Know how to live the time that is given you.”
― Dario Fo

“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!”
― Hermann Hesse

“κι όταν δεν πεθαίνει ο ένας για τον άλλον είμαστε κιόλας νεκροί.”
― Τάσος Λειβαδίτης

“A man who limits his interests limits his life.”
― Vincent Price

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Άσε να κλαίω. Μόνο γράφε τους λόγους, μήπως κι οφείλω κι άλλη λύπη. Θέλω να έχω τη συνείδησή μου ήσυχη πως βασανίστηκα για όλα.”
― Κική Δημουλά

“Είμαι λίγο θυμωμένη, όπως αντιλαμβάνεσαι. Μ' εμένα. Διότι έπρεπε να έχω ωριμάσει. Να μην απορώ με τίποτα.”
― Κική Δημουλά

“Ὁ μόνος ἀξιόπιστος μάρτυρας ὅτι ζήσαμε
εἶναι ἡ ἀπουσία μας.”
― Κική Δημουλά

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw