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“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Boj se ovna, boj se govna, a kada ću živjeti?”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“On July 3, 1968, Chairman Mao issued an order calling for the ruthless suppression of class enemies. He wanted all members of the Five Black Categories to be eliminated, together with TWENTY THREE NEW TYPES of enemy , which included anyone who had ever served as a policeman before the Liberation, or who had been sent to prison or labor camp. And not only them but their family and distant relatives as well.
That’s a lot of people.

Yes. Just think, the literal meaning of the Chinese characters for “revolution” is “elimination of life”
― Ma Jian, Beijing Coma

“Čovječe, sjeti se da si ravan onome pred kim se ponizuješ, i ne ponizuj se! Hodaj uspravno, ne plači pred tuđim vratima, jer iza tih vrata za tebe nema nikoga, pljusni i pljuni, ali se ne ponizuj.”
― Miroslav Krleža, Gospoda Glembajevi

“The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Palm of the Hand Stories

“Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“After all, only women are able really to love.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night clolour. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“Mass is not proportional to volume.
A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower petal is pulling me toward her with more force than her mass.
Just then, like Newton’s apple, I rolled toward her without stopping until I fell on her, with a thump. With a thump.
My heart keeps bouncing between the sky and the ground.
It was my first love.”
― Kim In Yook, Physics of Love 사랑의 물리학

“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”
― Lao Tzu

“To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely,
To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored,
To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down.

Chew on your feelings that are cornerned like you would chew on rice.
Anyway, life is something that you need to digest.”
― Chun Yang Hee

“I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road.”
― Ha Myung-hee (writer), said by Dr. Jung YoonDo, Doctors (닥터스)

“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”
― Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch

“The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you've come.”
― Bangtan Boys, Butterfly

“Live your life. It’s yours anyway.
Don’t try too hard. It’s okay to lose.”
― Bangtan Boys, Fire

“Maybe I can never fly, Baby I can't touch the sky.”
― Jin

“Čovječe! Pazi da ne ideš malen ispod zvijezda!”
― Antun Branko Šimić

“Nužno, netko fali, kad nas pjesma smami.
Gledamo se blijedi. Falimo si sami.”
― Tin Ujević

“I sve je danas prazno beskonačno,
a vjetar duva, duva bezutješno
na gole duše koje neprestano
ištu i grle beznadno, beskrajno.”
― Tin Ujević, Izabrane pjesme

“Sanjari, sami, u hodu, bez volje da išta kažu primaju zvukove svijeta do ruba svojih usta, i onda, besvjesno, nikom, u šapatu obrazlažu kako je vasiona duboka i strasno vrlo gusta.”
― Tin Ujević

“Please don´t make me dream anymore.”
― 하일권, 안나라수마나라 1

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

“Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.”
― Erin Hanson

“Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
― Erin Hanson