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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #2
    Rollo May
    “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
    Rollo May

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #4
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #9
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “What a strange power there is in clothing.”
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • #10
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked.
    And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them."
    I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.”
    Isaac Bashevis Singer, Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus: And Other Stories

  • #11
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “If you believe in God, then He exists.”
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • #12
    Franz Kafka
    “They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #13
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “How good life is when one does something good and just!”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #17
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #20
    Friedrich Schiller
    “Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
    Friedrich von Schiller

  • #21
    Friedrich Schiller
    “Unsere Träume, Unsere Sehnsüchte, und bunten Hoffnungen wollen ernst und wichtig genommen werden.

    Wer sie verdrängt, unterdrückt das Beste in sich und wird ein leerer Mensch.”
    Schiller

  • #22
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #23
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
    'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
    'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “At the center of your being
    you have the answer;
    you know who you are
    and you know what you want.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #25
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #26
    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #27
    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #28
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #29
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #30
    Anthony  Powell
    “Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #31
    Hermann Hesse
    “Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if
    he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha



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