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“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

“Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

“Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“من أصغر الأشياء تولد أكبر الأفكار”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“ولا

تَضَعُوا على قبري البنفسجَ ، فَهْوَ

زَهْرُ المُحْبَطين يُذَكِّرُ الموتى بموت

الحُبِّ قبل أَوانِهِ . وَضَعُوا على

التابوتِ سَبْعَ سنابلٍ خضراءَ إنْ

وُجِدَتْ ، وبَعْضَ شقائقِ النُعْمانِ إنْ

وُجِدَتْ”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“Dawn skies are meant to be gloriously on fire.”
― Joanna Hathaway, Dark of the West

“I know it won't ever truly be over, not even when I'm old, because you'll forever represent the spirit of the very sky to me. No one can kill the sky. No one can shrink it back down to earth.”
― Joanna Hathaway, Storm from the East

“The saddest part about living is the realization you only get to do it once.”
― Joanna Hathaway, Storm from the East

“Peace is not a jewel, or a realm to be enforced.
It's a deep and unseen journey inwards—quiet, brave, fierce as a thousand suns.”
― Joanna Hathaway, Southern Sun, Northern Star

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Words have a longevity I do not.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

“Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy "because of".”
― Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“See on see, kuhu nihilism viib. See ei ole enam see, mis võiks olla, või see, mis võiks mitte. See on. Kogu maailm on vahetu entroponeetilise katastroofi tsoon.”
― Robert Kurvitz, Püha ja õudne lõhn

“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You don't have to do anything anymore. Ever. Never ever.

An inordinate amount of time passes. It is utterly void of struggle. No ex-wives are contained within it

[...] The song of death is sweet and endless... But what is this? Somewhere in the sore, bloated *man-meat* around you — a sensation!

[...] The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music.”
― Robert Kurvitz

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
― James A. Michener

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays