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“We don’t have to invite pain in, he thinks. It’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are”
― George Elliot

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart...”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Είναι μάλλον φανερό απ' όσα είπα έως τώρα ότι όχι μόνο είμαι υπαρξιστής, αλλά φτάνω και στο σημείο να πω ότι δεν γνωρίζουμε τη φύση μας. Απλώς μαθαίνουμε τον εαυτό μας όσο ζούμε τη ζωή μας. Και όσο μαθαίνουμε τόσο γεννιούνται μέσα μας ερωτήματα.”
― Norman Mailer, On God: An Uncommon Conversation

“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.”
― George Carlin

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”
― Vincent Starrett, Penny Wise & Book Foolish

“Surviving one’s own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“Η έπαρση της νιότης είναι το ωραιότερο λάθος της ζωής.”
― Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη, Μικρά Αγγλία

“Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“...for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.”
― Julian Barnes

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino