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  • #1
    Brad Meltzer
    “We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
    Brad Meltzer

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #5
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #10
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #11
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.”
    Andrei Tarkovsky

  • #12
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    Andrei Tarkovsky

  • #13
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
    Andrei Tarkovsky

  • #14
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #15
    John  Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #18
    Erich Maria Remarque
    “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
    Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
    Rumi

  • #20
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #23
    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    Herbert Bayard Swope

  • #24
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #25
    C.G. Jung
    “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #26
    Joseph Heller
    “His heart cracked, and he fell in love. He wondered if she would marry him.

    “Tu sei pazzo,” she told him with a pleasant laugh.

    “Why am I crazy?” he asked.

    “Perché non posso sposare.”

    “Why can’t you get married?”

    “Because I am not a virgin,” she answered.

    “What has that got to do with it?”

    “Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin.”

    “I will. I’ll marry you.”

    “Ma non posso sposarti.”

    “Why can’t you marry me?”

    “Perché sei pazzo.”

    “Why am I crazy?”

    “Perché vuoi sposarmi.”

    Yossarian wrinkled his forehead with quizzical amusement. “You won’t marry me because I’m crazy, and you say I’m crazy because I want to marry you? Is that right?”

    “Si.”

    “Tu sei pazz’!” he told her loudly.

    “Perché?” she shouted back at him indignantly, her unavoidable round breasts rising and falling in a saucy huff beneath the pink chemise as she sat up in bed indignantly. “Why am I crazy?”

    “Because you won’t marry me.”

    “Stupido!” she shouted back at him, and smacked him loudly and flamboyantly on the chest with the back of her hand. “Non posso sposarti! Non capisci? Non posso sposarti.”

    “Oh, sure, I understand. And why can’t you marry me?”

    “Perché sei pazzo!”

    “And why am I crazy?”

    “Perché vuoi sposarmi.”

    “Because I want to marry you. Carina, ti amo,” he explained, and he drew her gently back down to the pillow. “Ti amo molto.”

    “Tu sei pazzo,” she murmured in reply, flattered.

    “Perché?”

    “Because you say you love me. How can you love a girl who is not a virgin?”

    “Because I can’t marry you.”

    She bolted right up again in a threatening rage. “Why can’t you marry me?” she demanded, ready to clout him again if he gave an uncomplimentary reply. “Just because I am not a virgin?”

    “No, no, darling. Because you’re crazy.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #27
    Joseph Heller
    “From now on I'm thinking only of me."

    Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way."

    "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #28
    Νίκος Καββαδίας
    “Τώρα στο τζάμι ένα καράβι εσκάρωσα
    κι ένα του Μαγκρ στιχάκι έχω σκαλίσει:
    "Τι θλίψη στα ταξίδια κρύβεται άπειρη!"
    Κι εγώ για ένα ταξίδι έχω κινήσει.”
    Νίκος Καββαδίας, Μαραμπού

  • #29
    Νίκος Καββαδίας
    “Υστερα σ'είδα στη Μαρσίλια σαν εχάθηκες
    μέσα στο θόρυβο χωρίς να στρέψεις πίσω.
    Κ' εγώ, που την υγρή έκταση αγάπησα,
    λέω πως εσένα θα μπορούσα ν' αγαπήσω.”
    Νίκος Καββαδίας, Μαραμπού

  • #30
    Νίκος Καββαδίας
    “Ακόμα, λένε πράματα φριχτά πάρα πολύ,
    που είν' όμως ψέματα χοντρά και κατασκευασμένα,
    κι αυτό που εστοίχισε σε με πληγές θανατερές
    κανείς δεν το 'μαθε, γιατί δεν το 'πα σε κανένα.”
    Νίκος Καββαδίας, Μαραμπού



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