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

“Only in chaos are we conceivable.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

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

“I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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

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

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

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“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

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

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“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

“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad

“Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making
sweeps you upward.

Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.

And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski