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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #7
    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #8
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski, Post Office

  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

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

  • #14
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
    Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #17
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #19
    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #20
    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #23
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #25
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #28
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #29
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina



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