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“Grub first, then ethics.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.”
― Henri Michaux

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”
― Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

“My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death...”
― Osamu Tezuka

“ما اجهل الناس الذين يتوهّمون ان المحبة تتولد بالمعاشرة الطويلة والمرافقة المستمرة.
ان المحبة الحقيقية هي ابنة التفاهم الروحي وان لم يتم هذا التفاهم الروحي بلحظة واحدة لا يتم بعام ولا بجيل كامل”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi

“I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless you in the endless future, amen.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Buddham Saranam Gocchami, I take refuge in the Buddha, Sangham, I take refuge in the church, Dhammam, I take refuge in the Dharma, the truth.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Modern barber college, Smith eyes closed suffers a haircut fearing its ugliness 50 cents, a barber student olive-skinned 'Garcia' on his coat, two blond small boys one with feared face and big ears watching from seats, tell him 'You're ugly little boy & you've got big ears' he'd weep and suffer and it wouldn't even be true, the other thinfaced conscious concentrated patched bluejeans and scuffed shoes who watches me delicate, suffering child that grows hard and greedy with puberty.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
― Marquis De Sade

“What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.”
― Marquis de Sade

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart goes out to them. They accept the essential ideal of man; they merely seek it wrongly. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. But philosophers dislike property as property; they wish to destroy the very idea of personal possession.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Even the common things he carried with him—the food and the brandy and the loaded pistol—took on exactly that concrete and material poetry which a child feels when he takes a gun upon a journey or a bun with him to bed.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“He had that combination of savoir-faire with a sort of well-groomed coarseness which is not uncommon in young doctors.”
― G.K Chesterton

“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare