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“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
― Marcel Proust

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Then it occured to me that the elicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words.”
― John Steinbeck

“A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Żle nas, Boże, stworzyłeś, za dużo w nas pragnienia miłości, za dużo samotności. Każdemu, kto nie chce być fanatykiem, pozostaje czekanie.”
― Robert Rient

“Hell’s built on regret.”
― Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

“In vino veritas”
― Pliny the Elder

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

“... Odchodzisz beze mnie, moje życie,
Toczysz się,
A ja wciąż czekam, zanim zrobię krok,
Ty już gdzie indziej stajesz do walki
...”
― Henri Michaux, La nuit remue

“All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Spędziliśmy słodko-gorzki wieczór. Słodki, bo spotkaliśmy się po latach i wspominaliśmy najpiękniejsze chwile młodości. Gorzki, bo zdaliśmy sobie sprawę, że łączy nas już tylko sentyment.”
― Marek Niedźwiecki, Nie wierzę w życie pozaradiowe