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“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? ”
― Jean Cocteau

“เราไม่จำเป็นต้องได้รางวัล แต่แข่งขันเพื่อแสดงให้รู้ว่ามีโลกแบบอื่น มีความจริงแบบอื่นดำรงอยู่ด้วย”
― ไชยรัตน์ เจริญสินโอฬาร, วิชาการสัญจร

“Her mind still worked, her feet still moved, she could walk, though only with the help of a walker, but walk she did, and she was a human being who knew for certainty that beans are best in salad and that old age is a terrible calamity.”
― Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

“There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”
― Paul Virilio

“The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth—begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?”
― Jorge Volpi

“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.”
― Jorge Volpi, In Spite of the Dark Silence

“I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.”
― Wolfgang Pauli

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“You cannot choose your battlefield,
God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew.

(From The Colors)”
― Nathalia Crane, The Singing Crow And Other Poems

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.”
― Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

“The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

“Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“ในสังคมที่ชนชั้นนำและผู้มีการศึกษาเป็นใหญ่อย่างสังคมไทย การช่วยเหลือที่ให้กับชนชั้นนำ มักจะถูกอธิบายหรืออ้างความชอบธรรมเสมอว่าเป็นการช่วยเหลือ "ระบบ" ไม่ใช่ช่วยตัวบุคคล ในขณะที่โครงการที่ให้ความช่วยเหลือกับชนชั้นยากไร้ ก็จะถูกมองว่าเป็นการให้ความช่วยเหลือ "ปัจเจกบุคคล" จึงเป็นโครงการ "หาเสียง" โครงการ "ประชานิยม" ลึกๆ แล้ว วิธีคิดแบบนี้ตั้งอยู่บนความเชื่อแบบหลงตัวเองว่า ชนชั้นนำ "ซื้อไม่ได้”
― ไชยรัตน์ เจริญสินโอฬาร, วิชาการสัญจร

“Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.”
― Luis Fernando Verissimo, Borges and the Eternal Orangutans

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
― Iris Murdoch

“Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”
― Eugene Ionesco

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide