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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    Rumi
    tags: joy

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Knock, And He'll open the door
    Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
    Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
    Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
    Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to see you.

    Know your voice.

    Recognize you when you
    first come 'round the corner.

    Sense your scent when I come
    into a room you've just left.

    Know the lift of your heel,
    the glide of your foot.

    Become familiar with the way
    you purse your lips
    then let them part,
    just the slightest bit,
    when I lean in to your space
    and kiss you.

    I want to know the joy
    of how you whisper
    "more”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #17
    Hermann Hesse
    “madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom”
    Herman Hesse

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #20
    Hermann Hesse
    “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
    Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #21
    Hermann Hesse
    “The river is everywhere.”
    Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #24
    Erich Fried
    “What it is

    It is madness
    says reason
    It is what it is
    says love
    It is unhappiness
    says caution
    It is nothing but pain
    says fear
    It has no future
    says insight
    It is what it is
    says love
    It is ridiculous
    says pride
    It is foolish
    says caution
    It is impossible
    says experience
    It is what it is
    says love.”
    Erich Fried, Es ist was es ist. Liebesgedichte. Angstgedichte. Zorngedichte

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
    "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
    "Yes. I want to ruin you."
    "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
    Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
    tags: love

  • #28
    Oriana Fallaci
    “To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”
    Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

  • #29
    Oriana Fallaci
    “You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
    Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

  • #30
    Oriana Fallaci
    “I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.”
    Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

  • #31
    Oriana Fallaci
    “I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.”
    Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born



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