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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #4
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #5
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: death

  • #8
    Alan             Moore
    “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.

    The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.

    The world is rudderless.”
    Alan Moore

  • #9
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    Lord Byron

  • #10
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

  • #11
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #13
    William Shakespeare
    “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #16
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #17
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #18
    Joseph Conrad
    “Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
    Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “What of Art?
    -It is a malady.
    --Love?
    -An Illusion.
    --Religion?
    -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    --You are a sceptic.
    -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    --What are you?
    -To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    D.H. Lawrence
    “There was only this one lamp-post. Behind was the great scoop of darkness, as if all the night were there.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

  • #27
    D.H. Lawrence
    “My shoes are made of Spanish leather, My socks are made of silk; I wear a ring on every finger, I wash myself in milk.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

  • #28
    Christopher Hitchens
    “What do you most value in your friends?
    Their continued existence.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

  • #29
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
    Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

  • #30
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”
    Christopher Hitchens



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