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“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“What a horror it would have been if the world was real.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.

- Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“Μην ακούς όλα όσα σου κατηγορώ. Ίσως υπερβάλλω, ίσως σε αδικώ περισσότερο από όσο σ' αξίζει. Είναι που το χρειάζομαι στην αδυναμία μου να παρηγορηθώ που σε έχασα. Έτσι, δειλά, κακορίζικα και μικρόψυχα να παρηγορηθώ υποβιβάζοντάς σε για να πείθομαι κι εγώ πως δεν είναι μόνο που σ' έχασα αλλά και που γλίτωσα κιόλας.”
― Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη, H μοναξιά είναι από χώμα

“Συναντάμε κόσμο όπως πορευόμαστε. Ανταλλάσσουμε βλέμματα, χαμόγελα ευγενικά, δυο υποχρεωτικές κουβέντες, για να προσπεράσουμε και να τα πετάξουμε αυτά αμέσως στον κάδο της λησμονιάς.Υπάρχουν μάτια όμως που από το πουθενά εμφανίζονται μια στιγμή μπρος μας, βυθίζονται στα δικά μας μάτια και αξιώνουν: “Εδώ θα μείνεις” ή “Σε περίμενα”. Συνήθως τέτοιες ακριβές διασταυρώσεις δεν περιέχουν διλήμματα. Θα μπορούσε να πει κανείς πως ούτε ενοχές περιέχουν. Προσπαθούν να αισθανθούν ενοχές, γιατί έτσι πρέπει, έτσι είναι το σωστό, το λογικό, όμως στην ουσία , όχι.”
― Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη, Τα πράγματα που ζουν απ' το χαμό

“Δε το αντέχουν όλοι το ζόρι της πραγματικότητας.”
― Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

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

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

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

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― e.e. cummings

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf