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#1

“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

#2

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: existentialism

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#3

“I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

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#4

“When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.”
― Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

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#5

“Love is wiser than wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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#6

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
― Umberto Eco

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#7

“Както отявленият атеист, който вижда нощем дявола и безбожнически разсъждава така: "Той безспорно не съществува, сигурно е от храносмилането, но рогатият не го знае и си вярва в своята преобърната теология. Кое би могло на него, уверения, че съществува, да вдъхне страх?" Прекръстваш се и той, доверчив, изчезва сред серен облак.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

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#8

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, self-actualization, self-image

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#9

“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: books

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#10

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: love

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#11

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: love, marriage

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#12

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

tags: war-freedom

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#13

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: character-courage

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#14

“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: siddhartha

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#15

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: love

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#16

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

tags: love

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#17

“Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ”
― Hermann Hesse

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#18

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”
― Laura Esquivel

tags: love, passion, water-for-chocolate

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#19

“It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: aromas, sense-memory

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#20

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#21

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pride, reading, writers

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#22

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#23

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#24

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#25

“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#26

“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#27

“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#28

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#29

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#30

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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