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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
    Murakami, Haruki

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #4
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “belief is the death of intelligence.”
    Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

  • #7
    Niels Bohr
    “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #8
    Julius Evola
    “Es wird nicht mehr die Idee sein, die Wert und Macht einem Individuum gibt, sondern das Individuum, das Wert, Macht und Rechtfertigung einer Idee gibt.”
    Julius Evola

  • #9
    Julius Evola
    “America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate”
    Julius Evola

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Anaïs Nin
    “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #12
    Fran Lebowitz
    “There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
    Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #14
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #15
    “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
    George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures

  • #16
    Julian Barnes
    “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #17
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #18
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
    Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

  • #19
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #20
    Georg Trakl
    “In den einsamen Stunden des Geistes ist es schön in der Sonne zu gehn,
    an den gelben Mauern des Sommers hin

    Georg Trakl

  • #21
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    François de La Rochefoucauld

  • #22
    George Burns
    “You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
    George Burns

  • #23
    Knut Hamsun
    “I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

    And which do you love best?

    The dream.”
    Knut Hamsun, Pan

  • #24
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #25
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

  • #26
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #27
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #28
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #29
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #30
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest



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