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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Costuma-se dizer, dêmos tempo ao tempo, mas aquilo que sempre nos esquecemos de perguntar é se haverá tempo para dar.”
― José Saramago, The Double

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“Gente como essa (...) não pode ser absolvida com o argumento de que é produto de uma sociedade, pois foram criados em sociedades que também produziram pessoas éticas. Nenhuma sociedade fabrica, "em série", os seus cidadãos — somos todos responsáveis por nossos atos.
Já algumas vezes ouvi o argumento vergonhoso de que até "Hitler não nasceu monstro, foi a sociedade que o tornou assim". Penso, ao contrário, que não podemos fingir ignorar que temos livre-arbítrio e somos responsáveis pelas escolhas que fazemos, cada um de nós, é claro, dentro de uma situação social e política concreta, que é poderosa e determinante, mas não exclusiva. A história dos povos e a biografia dos indivíduos não são obra da fatalidade. Construímos nossas vidas que não estão escritas nas linhas de nossas mãos, lidas por uma cigana.”
― Augusto Boal, Teatro do Oprimido e outras poéticas políticas

“Perhaps there was no more detrimental consequence of our childhood abandonment than being forced to habitually hide our authentic selves. Many of us come out of childhood believing that what we have to say is as uninteresting to others as it was to our parents.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving