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  • #1
    Claire North
    “The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.”
    Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

  • #3
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”
    Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

  • #4
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions

  • #5
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched walls and the stamped earth as its floor, there’s a wooden table and a bench. In this round cell a man that looks like me is writing in signs that i don’t understand a long poem about a man who in another round cell is writing a poem about a man in another round cell. Endless series; nobody will ever read what prisoners write. ”
    jorge luis borges

  • #6
    Roberto Arlt
    “The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers”
    Roberto Arlt, El juguete rabioso

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #9
    César Aira
    “The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity”
    Cesar Aira, The Literary Conference

  • #10
    César Aira
    “I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”
    César Aira, The Hare
    tags: clarke

  • #11
    César Aira
    “Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.”
    César Aira, How I Became a Nun

  • #12
    César Aira
    “Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”
    César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

  • #13
    James Clavell
    “There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer”
    James Clavell, Shogun

  • #14
    James Clavell
    “It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.”
    James Clavell, Shōgun

  • #15
    James Clavell
    “The subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title.”
    James Clavell

  • #16
    James Clavell
    “I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!”
    James Clavell, Tai-Pan

  • #17
    James Clavell
    “Like dew I was born
    Like dew I vanish
    ..and all that I have ever done
    Is but a dream
    Within a dream”
    James Clavell, Shōgun, Volume 1

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It takes two to make an accident.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #22
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #23
    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #24
    “What has he found who has lost God?
    And what has he lost who has found God?”
    Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari

  • #25
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #26
    George Carlin
    “If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
    George Carlin

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #28
    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

  • #29
    Samih Al-Qasim
    “غرباء ..


    و بكينا.. يوم غنّى الآخرون

    و لجأنا للسماء

    يوم أزرى بالسماء الآخرون

    و لأنّا ضعفاء

    و لأنّا غرباء

    نحن نبكي و نصلي

    يوم يلهو و يغنّي الآخرون



    و حملنا.. جرحنا الدامي حملنا

    و إلى أفق وراء الغيب يدعونا.. رحلنا

    شرذماتٍ.. من يتامى

    و طوينا في ضياعٍ قاتم..عاماً فعاما

    و بقينا غرباء

    و بكينا يوم غنى الآخرون



    سنوات التيهِ في سيناءَ كانت أربعين

    ثم عاد الآخرون

    و رحلنا.. يوم عاد الآخرون

    فإلى أين؟.. و حتامَ سنبقى تائهين

    و سنبقى غرباء ؟”
    سميح القاسم

  • #30
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق”
    Che Guevara



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