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  • #1
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    Michael Crichton

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #3
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    George Orwell

  • #4
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #5
    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

  • #6
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #7
    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #8
    David  Mitchell
    Fantasy. Lunacy.
    All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #9
    Milan Kundera
    “People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

  • #13
    Rudyard Kipling
    “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
    Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim

  • #14
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”
    Uchiha Madara

  • #15
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #18
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #19
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
    Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
    This is all practice.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #20
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.
    Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am.
    What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #23
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Find good in what the world says is evil.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #27
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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