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  • #1
    Jeremy Griffith
    “What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
    Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

  • #2
    “I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.”
    Noomi Rapace

  • #3
    William Allingham
    “Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
    William Allingham

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #5
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #8
    Paul Valéry
    “Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
    Paul Valery

  • #9
    Paul Valéry
    “Sometime I think; and sometime I am.”
    Paul Valéry

  • #10
    William Faulkner
    “Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

  • #12
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #14
    Stephen Crane
    “Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.”
    Stephen Crane

  • #15
    Erasmus
    “For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.”
    Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

    --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #19
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #20
    Kahlil Gibran
    “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

  • #21
    David McRaney
    “You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to the effects in your life, and you make them up without realizing it when you don't know the answers. Over time, these explanations become your idea of who you are and your place in the world. They are your self... You are a story you tell yourself.”
    David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart

  • #22
    David McRaney
    “Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one another for status...Hipsters, then, are the direct result of this cycle of indie, authentic, obscure, ironic, clever consummerism...It is ironic in the sense the very act of trying to run counter to the culture is what creates the next wave of culture people will in turn attempt to counter.”
    David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart

  • #23
    مصطفى محمود
    “يقول لنا المفكر الهندي وحيد الدين خان: إذا كان الظما إلى الماء يدل على وجود الماء فكذلك الظمأ إلى العدل لابد أنه يدل على وجود العدل .. ولأنه لا عدل في الدنيا .. فهو دليل على وجود الآخرة مستقر العدل الحقيقي”
    مصطفى محمود, رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان

  • #24
    يوسف إدريس
    “هو مستعد أن يصدق الحرام من الرجال، ولكنه لامر ما يصعب عليه ان بصدق الحرام من النساء”
    يوسف إدريس, الحرام

  • #25
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

  • #27
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #31
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close



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