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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?”
― Ray Bradbury

“My actions are my only true belongings.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”
― Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
― Heisenberg

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. ”
― Georges Simenon

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“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

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
― Dogen

“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“The object of your desire is not an object.”
― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
― Victor Frankl

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
― jim morrison

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus