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“Dù vũ trụ có nổ tan tành như tro, tôi vẫn còn đó: tôi là vũ trụ, tôi là tro, tôi là tiếng nổ.”
― Phạm Công Thiện, Mặt trời không bao giờ có thực

“Chưa bao giờ tôi mệt như chiều hôm nay, tất cả trôi lềnh bềnh, tôi ngạt thở, tôi nằm dài trên giường trong cơn hấp hối tuyệt vọng. Sống, sống lên, tôi mệt quá rồi, mây trắng vẫn còn bay?”
― Phạm Công Thiện, Mặt trời không bao giờ có thực

“Just as bad poets, in the second half of a line, look for a thought to fit their rhyme, so people in the second half of their lives, having become more anxious, look for the actions, attitudes, relationships that suit those of their earlier life, so that everything will harmonize outwardly. But then they no longer have any powerful thought to rule their life and determine it anew; rather, in its stead, comes the intention of finding a rhyme.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am so sad, so sad… like a woman.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
― Roland Barthes

“Cái chết là một dấu chấm hết. Dấu chấm hết nào cũng muốn mang ý nghĩa của cái câu đi trước nó. Tôi muốn biết mình là ai để ngày tôi chết tôi biết rằng ai đã chết”
― Đoàn Minh Phượng, Và Khi Tro Bụi

“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
― Ezra Pound

“I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“One man adheres to an opinion because he prides himself on having come upon it by himself; another because he has learned it with effort, and is proud of having grasped it: thus both out of vanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Man Alone with Himself