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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Bjauru mirti, todėl geriu. Bijau mirti, todėl rašau. Bijau mirti, ryju tabletes. Viskas vardan mirti.”
― Antanas Škėma, Balta drobulė

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

“Think it over, think it under.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”
― John Lennon

“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”
― Mia Couto, A Confissão da Leoa

“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

“Q- What makes you depressed?

Seeing stupid people happy.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Mes nuolat kovosime vienas su kitu, tačiau tiktai kiekvienas savyje, išorėje niekas, nei tu, nei aš, nematysime. Pikčiausias priešas yra žmogus, bandantis atimti visą vienatvę ir mūsų liūdesį. Tačiau tai tas priešas, be kurio mes negalime, mūsų mylimas priešas.”
― Kęstutis Navakas, Vyno kopija

“Susan Sontag yra rašiusi maždaug taip: erdvė egzistuoja tam, kad visi dalykai neįvyktų vienoj vietoj, o laikas egzistuoja tam, kad visi dalykai neįvyktų vienu metu. Tad atrodo, kad laikas ir erdvė nėra man joks rodiklis, manyje vyksta viskas ir vienu metu. Arba niekas ir niekada. Ir blogiausia, kad šie procesai tęstiniai, serijiniai, paveldėti iš Čingischano, nes, kaip sako mokslininkai, visi turim po labai mažą, bet, visgi, dalį Čingischano genų, o, kaip sako irgi mokslininkai, visi turim ir dinozauro genų, tik jau po labai mikroskopinę dalį. Tad aš esu kažkas tarp mongolų imperatoriaus ir Tyrannosaurus rex, miela Auguste, Susan Sontag irgi tarp jų, tai šiek tiek guodžia.”
― Kęstutis Navakas, Vyno kopija

“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”
― Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics

“I have a disease; I see language.”
― Roland Barthes

“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. this happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. people in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. and finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers.”
― Milan Kundera

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.”
― Samuel Beckett, Happy Days

“<…> ji klausdavo manęs, kokį karą kariauju aš. Nežinodavau atsakymo, nenorėjau nei gyventi, nei mirti, nei šlovės, nei stabilumo, neturėjau svajonių ar tikslų, neturėjau valios ar talento, netgi nebuvau labai graži, buvau viena iš tų tūkstančių moterų, kurios sekdavo iš paskos savo mylimiesiems ir būdavo ištikimos arbatos virėjos, lovos paklotėliai, žolės pjovėjos. Buvau lengvai pakeičiama ir mano veidas priminė plaukų dažų naudojimo instrukcijų paveiksliukus – buvo beveidis.”
― Gabija Grušaitė, Neišsipildymas

“Žiūrėdama praeiviams į veidus, galvojau, kaip stipriai jie visi nori žaisti maištą, kaip labai trokšta susprogdinti šitą nesibaigiantį saulės ratą, bet… žaisti maištą tyliai, atsargiai, neišklystant iš kelio, bijant prarasti, ką turi.
Jie nieko neturi.
Išskyrus laiką ir viltį, o laikas po truputį naikina viltį.”
― Gabija Grušaitė, Neišsipildymas

“...you'll see that things will turn out like they do, because that is what usually happens - almost always, in fact”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

“Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

- Rain”
― Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“...tu mano namai - šiandien, ryt ir niekad!”
― Jurgis Kunčinas

“Kartais man atrodo, kad tave, Tūla, aš pats susigalvojau – iš tikrųjų tavęs nė nebuvo. Susikūriau iš oro, vandens, dumblių, žiežirbos ir negarsaus grumėjimo už Vilniaus kalvų. Arba: esu tau dėkingas, kad tik vieną savaitę mudu gyvenom kartu, kad toji savaitė atstojo – man, žinoma, tik man! – ilgus metus.”
― Jurgis Kunčinas