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  • #1
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #2
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Only in chaos are we conceivable.”
    Roberto Bolaño, 2666

  • #3
    Dante Alighieri
    “la quale fue chiamata da molti Beatrice li quali non sapeano che si chiamare.”
    Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

  • #4
    Ibn Al-Farid
    “And I did see, self-seeing, her in all things visible.”
    Ibn Al-Farid, The Poem of the Way

  • #5
    Nanao Sakaki
    “When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind.”
    Nanao Sakaki, Break the Mirror

  • #6
    Boris Vian
    “Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.”
    Boris Vian, L'écume des jours

  • #7
    Hafez
    “I wish I could show you,
    When you are lonely or in darkness,

    The Astonishing Light
    Of your own Being!”
    Hafez, The Divan

  • #8
    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #9
    Ken Kesey
    “To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  • #10
    Bodhidharma
    “A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas.”
    Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #13
    Dante Alighieri
    “Thus you may understand that love alone
    is the true seed of every merit in you,
    and of all acts for which you must atone.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

  • #14
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • #15
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “There's no tyrant like a brain. ”
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

  • #18
    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #19
    Nizami Ganjavi
    “لیلی بودم، ولیک اکنون
    مجنون ترم از هزار مجنون”
    Nizami Ganjavi, Layla and Majnun

  • #20
    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #21
    Mohammed El-Kurd
    “The vultures will make sculptures out of our flesh.”
    Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

  • #22
    Nanao Sakaki
    “If you have time to chatter,
    Read books.

    If you have time to read,
    Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

    If you have time to walk,
    Sing songs and dance.

    If you have time to dance,
    Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.”
    Nanao Sakaki

  • #23
    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #24
    Miguel de Unamuno
    “Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
    Miguel de Unamuno

  • #25
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #26
    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, L'Étranger

  • #27
    Jack London
    “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
    Jack London

  • #28
    Hermann Hesse
    “You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
    Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #29
    Kahlil Gibran
    “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

  • #30
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    George Bernard Shaw



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