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  • #1
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If I were in their place, I’d fall over myself.”
    Sartre J.-P.
    tags: nausea

  • #2
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.”
    Sartre J.-P.

  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Voltaire
    “Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
    Voltaire

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: wit

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
    Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

  • #11
    Walt Whitman
    “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
    And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
    walt whitman

  • #12
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #13
    William S. Burroughs
    “I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #14
    William S. Burroughs
    “If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #15
    Adrienne Rich
    “What we see, we see
    and seeing is changing”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #16
    Adrienne Rich
    “This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays?
    to give a ground of meaning to our pain?”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #18
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #19
    Victor Hugo
    “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    Ezra Pound
    “You have been second always. Tragical?
    No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
    One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
    One average mind- with one thought less, each year.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #22
    T.S. Eliot
    “Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow”
    T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

  • #23
    T.S. Eliot
    “Love is most nearly itself
    When here and now cease to matter.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #24
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Faire souffrir c'est posséder et créer tout autant que détruire.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire

  • #25
    T.S. Eliot
    “There will be time, there will be time
    To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
    T.S. Eliot.

  • #26
    T.S. Eliot
    “We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

  • #27
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #28
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras: A Gripping Classic – French Aviators Defy Impossible Odds During the Fall of France in World War 2

  • #29
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.”
    Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell & Other Poems

  • #30
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.”
    Arthur Rimbaud



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