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  • #1
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions

  • #2
    三毛
    “我在想,飛蛾撲火時,一定是極快樂幸福的。”
    三毛, 撒哈拉的故事

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #7
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #8
    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #9
    Sigmund Freud
    “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
    Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

  • #10
    Sigmund Freud
    “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #11
    Sigmund Freud
    “Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #16
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #17
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983

  • #18
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #19
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #20
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #21
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #22
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #25
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

  • #26
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #27
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #29
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #30
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky



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