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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”
― Charlie Huston, Already Dead

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
― Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

“I like to call in sick to work at places where I’ve never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don’t work there, I tell them I’d like to. But not today, as I’m sick.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb”
― Stephen King

“Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy on life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself. No matter what corruption he’s taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment–just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity!–an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

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

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Аз не обичам изхода фатален
и няма да ми писне да съм жив.
И мразя се, когато съм печален,
когато пея, а не съм щастлив.
Аз хладния цинизъм не обичам
/Не вярвам във възторга въобще!/,
през рамото ми някой да наднича,
писмата ми друг да ги чете.

Аз мразя разговори полусмели,
полунеща да шепнат с полуглас.
Аз ненавиждам в гръб когато стрелят,
когато в упор стрелят - мразя аз.

Аз не обичам с клюки да се калям,
а също и съмнението зло.
Аз не обичам змийски да ме галят,
с желязо да ми стържат по стъкло.

Аз мразя ситите душички, свити,
аз предпочитам истинския риск.
Да бъдеш честен вече е събитие
и чест е днес да бъдеш ти сплетник.

Аз мразя счупени крила да виждам,
изпитвам жал, но само към Христа.
Насилието както ненавиждам,
така и ненавиждам слабостта.

И мразя се, когато се страхувам.
Когато бият някой без вина.
Когато във душата ми нахлуват
и в нея храчат своята злина.

Аз мразя - и манежи, и арени -
там сменят милиона за петак.
Дори след най-големите промени
аз няма да ги заобичам пак.”
― Владимир Висоцки

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last