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  • #1
    Ian McEwan
    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #3
    Tahir Shah
    “There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.”
    Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

  • #4
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #5
    Isaac Marion
    “All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.”
    Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #8
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #9
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #12
    Tom Wolfe
    “They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.”
    Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

  • #13
    Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
    “Elle lui demanda en quoi un jour de pluie pouvait être beau : il lui énuméra les nuances de couleurs que prendraient le ciel, les arbres et les toits lorsqu'ils se promèneraient tantôt, de la puissance sauvage avec laquelle leur apparaîtrait l'océan, du parapluie qui les rapprocherait pendant la marche, de la joie qu'ils auraient à se réfugier ici pour un thé chaud, des vêtements qui sécheraient auprès du feu, de la langueur qui en découlerait, de l'opportunité qu'ils auraient de faire plusieurs fois l'amour, du temps qu'ils prendraient à se raconter leur vie sous les draps du lit, enfants protégés par une tente de la nature déchaînée...”
    Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Odette Toulemonde et autres histoires

  • #14
    Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
    “-Ça ne fait rien, disait monsieur Ibrahim. Ton amour pour elle, il est à toi. Il t'appartient. Même si elle le refuse, elle ne peut rien y changer. Elle n'en profite pas, c'est tout. Ce que tu donnes, Momo, c'est à toi pour toujours; ce que tu gardes, c'est perdu à jamais!”
    Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an

  • #15
    Lucian Blaga
    “Când izgonit din cuibul veşniciei
    întâiul om
    trecea uimit şi-ngândurat pe codri ori pe câmpuri,
    îl chinuiau mustrându-l
    lumina, zarea, norii - şi din orice floare
    îl săgeta c-o amintire paradisul -
    Şi omul cel dintâi, pribeagul, nu ştia să plângă.

    Odată istovit de-albastrul prea senin
    al primăverii,
    cu suflet de copil întâiul om
    căzu cu faţa-n pulberea pământului:
    "Stăpâne, ia-mi vederea,
    ori dacă-ţi stă-n putinţă împăienjeneşte-mi ochii
    c-un giulgiu,
    să nu mai văd
    nici flori, nici cer, nici zâmbetele Evei şi nici nori,
    căci vezi - lumina lor mă doare".

    Şi-atuncea Milostivul într-o clipă de-ndurare
    îi dete - lacrimile.”
    Lucian Blaga

  • #16
    Emil M. Cioran
    “Mi-am pierdut, în contact cu oamenii, toată prospeţimea nevrozelor.
    (Silogismele amaraciunii)”
    Emil Cioran

  • #17
    Emil M. Cioran
    “Exista doua feluri de a simti singuratatea: a te simti singur în lume si a simti singuratatea lumii. Cînd te simti singur, traiesti o drama pur individuala; sentimentul parasirii este posibil chiar în cadrul unei splendori naturale. In acest caz, intereseaza numai nelinistile subiectivitatii tale. A te simti aruncat si suspendat în lume, incapabil de a te adapta ei, consumat în tine însuti, distrus de propriile tale deficiente sau exaltari, chinuit de insuficientele tale, indiferent de aspectele exterioare ale lumii, care pot fi stralucitoare sau sumbre, tu ramînînd în aceeasi drama launtrica, iata ce înseamna singuratate individuala. 

    Sentimentul singuratatii cosmice, desi se petrece tot într-un individ, deriva nu atît din framîntarea lui pur subiectiva cat din senzatia parasirii acestei lumi, a neantului exterior. Este ca si cum toate splendorile acestei lumi ar disparea deodata pentru ca monotonia esentiala a unui cimitir s-o simbolizeze. Sînt multi care se simt torturati de viziunea unei lumi parasite, iremediabil abandonate unei singuratati glaciale, pe care n-o ating, macar, nici slabele reflexe ale unei lumini crepusculare. Care sînt mai nefericiti, acei care simt singuratatea în ei, sau aceia care o simt în afara, în exterior? Imposibil de raspuns. Si apoi, de ce sa ma chinuiasca ierarhia singuratatii? A fi singur, în orice fel, nu e destul?

    Dau în scris, pentru toata lumea care va veni dupa mine, ca n-am în ce sa cred pe acest pamînt si ca unica scapare este uitarea absoluta. As vrea sa uit de tot, sa ma uit complet, sa nu mai stiu nimic de mine si de lumea aceasta. Adevaratele confesiuni nu se pot scrie decît cu lacrimi. Dar lacrimile mele ar îneca aceasta lume, precum focul meu interior ar incendia-o. N-am nevoie de nici un sprijin, de nici un îndemn si de nici o compatimire, caci desi sînt cel mai decazut om, ma simt totusi atît de puternic, atît de tare si de fioros! Caci sînt singurul om care traiesc fara speranta. Or, aceasta este culmea eroismului, paroxismul si paradoxul eroismului. Suprema nebunie! Toata pasiunea haotica si dezorientata din mine ar trebui s-o canalizez pentru a uita totul, pentru a nu mai fi nimic, pentru a scapa de spirit si de constiinta. Am si eu o speranta: speranta uitarii absolute. Dar aceasta mai e speranta, nu e ea disperare? Nu-i aceasta speranta negarea tuturor sperantelor viitoare? Vreau sa nu mai stiu nimic, nici macar sa stiu ca nu stiu nimic.”
    Emil Cioran

  • #18
    Emil M. Cioran
    “Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
    Emil Cioran

  • #19
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #20
    “I think our souls are always being hole-punched, like old train tickets. In the end, we're all perforated. If we were buckets, we wouldn't hold water.”
    Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

  • #21
    “I feel like I’m going to get in a fight one day about the validity of falling in love so fast. Not a heated one because why would I give a shit if some other person gets it or not? Right now, it’s no longer the big flooding rush like when I saw her naked shoulder. It’s just this honest, frank truth. I love Evelyn Shriner. Love doesn’t start with need. Love meets love and just fucking recognizes itself. I’m supposed to be scared to death. Modern man isn’t built for these kinds of things. But I feel good.”
    Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

  • #22
    “Her love could stretch on unconditionally and endlessly, like
it’s a universe within her. I’m drawn to the edge of that universe. I’d like to fall into a black hole of it somehow. I just whisper, “God.”
    Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #25
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be”
    Joyce Carol Oates, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away

  • #26
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “In love there are two things - bodies and words. ”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #27
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #28
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #29
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #30
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”
    Joyce Carol Oates



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