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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #2
    David Foster Wallace
    “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #5
    Orhan Pamuk
    “My unhappiness protects me from life.”
    Orhan Pamuk

  • #6
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.”
    Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City

  • #7
    Orhan Pamuk
    “It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.”
    Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City

  • #8
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #9
    Jojo Moyes
    “I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #10
    Meggie C. Royer
    “I don’t wear a red cape.

    I can’t scale buildings like a salamander or leap across canyons

    twenty miles wide. I don’t have a huge S emblazoned across my chest.

    My superpowers come from teaching myself how to survive

    when all I wanted to do was be one of the people

    that heroes are supposed to save.”
    Meggie Royer

  • #11
    Gillian Flynn
    “I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #12
    Austin Kleon
    “when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”
    Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

  • #13
    “What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!”
    ―Subject 16. ACR

  • #14
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #15
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #16
    Elizabeth J. Church
    “It was magic to be above [the clouds], to see their uppermost contours, the way they caught the light and held it, their vast shadows moving upon the face of the earth. I wished I could open the window and know what the world sounded like at that altitude. I thought about the solitude of that world, how it must be inhabited by the voice of the wind, only. ... I thought about what my crows saw as they flew above canyons and treetops, the birds-eye view of life. They would recognize specific trees, perches, and nesting sites from a completely different perspective than I could. Their maps differed from mine; they knew the topography, the contours of the landscape, on a much grander scale.”
    Elizabeth J. Church, The Atomic Weight of Love

  • #17
    Sanober  Khan
    “I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #18
    Sharon Salzberg
    “We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
    Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

  • #19
    Mil Millington
    “my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness”
    Mil Millington

  • #20
    Rajesh`
    “A lot of people look intellectual and wise, but the mediocrity comes sailing through via their habits and when they start talking.”
    Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

  • #21
    Rajesh`
    “I like to equate the mediocrity of everyday matters with the force of gravity. It pulls you downwards. For wisdom to be obtained, the escape velocity must be reached and maintained.”
    Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

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  • #24
    T.S. Eliot
    “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

  • #25
    Chuck Klosterman
    “When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It's almost like those things didn't happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don't really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can't even remember her name.”
    Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

  • #26
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

    [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
    Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

  • #27
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
    1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
    2. The Old Testament
    3. Aeschylus – Tragedies
    4. Sophocles – Tragedies
    5. Herodotus – Histories
    6. Euripides – Tragedies
    7. Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
    8. Hippocrates – Medical Writings
    9. Aristophanes – Comedies
    10. Plato – Dialogues
    11. Aristotle – Works
    12. Epicurus – Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
    13. Euclid – Elements
    14. Archimedes – Works
    15. Apollonius of Perga – Conic Sections
    16. Cicero – Works
    17. Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
    18. Virgil – Works
    19. Horace – Works
    20. Livy – History of Rome
    21. Ovid – Works
    22. Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia
    23. Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
    24. Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
    25. Epictetus – Discourses; Encheiridion
    26. Ptolemy – Almagest
    27. Lucian – Works
    28. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
    29. Galen – On the Natural Faculties
    30. The New Testament
    31. Plotinus – The Enneads
    32. St. Augustine – On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
    33. The Song of Roland
    34. The Nibelungenlied
    35. The Saga of Burnt Njál
    36. St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica
    37. Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
    38. Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
    39. Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
    40. Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
    41. Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly
    42. Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    43. Thomas More – Utopia
    44. Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises
    45. François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
    46. John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
    47. Michel de Montaigne – Essays
    48. William Gilbert – On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
    49. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
    50. Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
    51. Francis Bacon – Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
    52. William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
    53. Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
    54. Johannes Kepler – Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
    55. William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
    56. Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
    57. René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
    58. John Milton – Works
    59. Molière – Comedies
    60. Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
    61. Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light
    62. Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics
    63. John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
    64. Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies
    65. Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
    66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology
    67. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
    68. Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
    69. William Congreve – The Way of the World
    70. George Berkeley – Principles of Human Knowledge
    71. Alexander Pope – Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
    72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
    73. Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
    74. Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
    75. Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets”
    Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

  • #28
    Victor Hugo
    “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: sea, sky, soul

  • #29
    Ptolemy
    “Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
    Ptolemy

  • #30
    Katherine Rundell
    “Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”
    Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

  • #31
    Joë Bousquet
    “I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.”
    Joe Bousquet



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