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“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. ”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Numai când e singur omul cu sufletul său, numai atunci există un echilibru între lumea lui cea mică dinăuntru şi restul universului; îndată ce intervine realitatea de-afară, omul devine o jucărie neputincioasă, fără voinţă adevărată, mergând încotro îl mână puteri şi hotărâri străine de fiinţa lui...”
― Liviu Rebreanu, Pădurea spânzuraţilor

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

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah,I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart”
― Tom Waits

“I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back”
― Tom Waits

“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
― Tom Waits

“Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On”
― Tom Waits

“I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.”
― Tom Waits

“i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...”
― Tom Waits

“Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.”
― Tom Waits

“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Do you hate people?”

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

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement