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“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

“A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision

“Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
― Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
― Martin Heidegger

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages. Repeated use, however, has obliterated its original metaphysical meaning: kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and figurative sense of the word; kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker