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“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

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

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

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Eχω ένα φόβο που τον έχουνε όλοι
Και μια φωτιά που την ταΐζω με λάθη
Και περιφέρομαι από πόλη σε πόλη
Μ' ένα κεφάλι γεμάτο χρυσάφι.”
― Γιάννης Αγγελάκας

“Είμαι τεράστιος, είμαι ουρανός, είμαι ο ένας ο σπουδαίος και ο λατρεμένος
Δεν είμαι απόμακρος, ούτε ψυχρός, μπροστά απ' τις κάμερες σου γνέφω λιγωμένος
Είμαι ένας άξεστος, είμαι ένας θριάμβος, είμαι ασταμάτητα ερωτοχτυπημένος
μη με φοβάσαι, μη με φοβάσαι, είσαι δικιά μου όσο πιο βαθιά κοιμάσαι.”
― Γιάννης Αγγελάκας, Για την καρδιά ενός κτήνους, 1985-2000

“Ποτέ άλλοτε οι στέγες των σπιτιών των ανθρώπων δεν ήταν τόσο κοντά η μία στην άλλη, όσο είναι σήμερα. Και ποτέ άλλοτε οι καρδιές των ανθρώπων δεν ήταν τόσο μακριά η μία από την άλλη, όσο είναι σήμερα”
― Αντώνης Σαμαράκης, Ζητείται ελπίς

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Δε ζούμε αληθινά παρά μόνο τη νύχτα μέσα στ'όνειρο. Και το πρωί "καλημέρα" λες, "καλημέρα" σου λένε. Κι η σφαγή συνεχίζεται.”
― Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Τα χειρόγραφα του φθινοπώρου

“Δεν ανήκω σε κανένα κόμμα και σε καμιά πολιτική οργάνωση. Δεν είμαι μέλος καμιάς εκκλησίας. Δεν είμαι οπαδός καμιάς θρησκείας. ... Έχοντας περάσει από τα ξερονήσια και τις φυλακές, νιώθω πως είμαι συγκρατούμενος όχι μόνο με όσους υποφέρουν στα φασιστικά στρατόπεδα, μα και με όσους βασανίζονται στο Αρχιπέλαγος Γκουλάγκ. Νιώθω αλληλέγγυος και συνυπεύθυνος με όσους αγωνίστηκαν, αγωνίζονται και θα αγωνιστούν εναντίον όλων των τυράννων, εστεμμένων και τραγιασκοφόρων, εναντίον όλων των δεσποτών, γαλονάδων και ρασοφόρων.”
― Άρης Αλεξάνδρου

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Όλη μέρα εδώ.
Γεμίζω αδειάζω τασάκια.
Γεμίζω αδειάζω κουράγιο.
Γεμίζω αδειάζω έρωτα.
Τίποτα δεν πρέπει να γεμίζει.
Πάνω από τα όριά του.
Διαφορετικά ξεχειλίζει.
Λερώνει.
Σε βάζει σε μπελάδες.”
― Γιάννης Αγγελάκας

“Σε ένα άγριο όνειρο ξύπνησα παγωμένος
Κάποιος με ρώταγε μέσα απ' το μαύρο φως
Ποιος είναι ο δρόμος μου, αν ξέρω πού πηγαίνω
Κι αν ξέρω ποιος από τους δυο μας είναι αυτός
Και ποιος εγώ
Μα σαν το ρώτησα ποιος είναι
Αν είναι ο διάβολος ή μήπως είναι ο Θεός
Δεν πήρα απάντηση, δεν πήρα
Και να 'μαι πάλι εδώ ζωντανός”
― Γιάννης Αγγελάκας, Για την καρδιά ενός κτήνους, 1985-2000

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“I HAVE DIED TOO MANY TIMES
BELIEVING AND WAITING, WAITING
IN A ROOM
STARING AT A CRACKED CEILING
WAITING FOR THE PHONE, A LETTER, A KNOCK, A SOUND…
GOING WILD INSIDE
WHILE SHE DANCED WITH STRANGERS IN NIGHTCLUBS…
OUT OF THE ARMS OF ONE LOVE
AND INTO THE ARMS OF ANOTHER”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus