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  • #1
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #2
    Marilynne Robinson
    “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

  • #3
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    “To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
    Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

  • #4
    Hermann Hesse
    “All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #5
    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #6
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #7
    Hermann Hesse
    “Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
    Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
    tags: love

  • #8
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #9
    Hermann Hesse
    “You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
    Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #10
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    sylvia plath

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
    You leave the same impression
    Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #15
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #16
    Anaïs Nin
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Anais Nin

  • #17
    Neil Jordan
    “Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
    Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

  • #18
    “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
    Rob Reiner

  • #19
    Jack Kerouac
    “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #20
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #21
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #22
    Jack Kerouac
    “Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #23
    Jack Kerouac
    “My witness is the empty sky.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #24
    Jack Kerouac
    “Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. ”
    Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters, 1940-1956

  • #25
    Jack Kerouac
    “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #26
    Jack Kerouac
    “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #27
    Don Carpenter
    “I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.”
    Don Carpenter

  • #28
    Kate Greenaway
    “Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
    Kate Greenaway

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #30
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
    Stéphane Mallarmé



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