Maksym Karpovets > Maksym's Quotes

“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ulysses”
― James Joyce

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
― Albert Camus

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

“If the world changed, I could not exist, and if I changed, the world could not exist”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”
― Dylan Thomas

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dylan Thomas

“My heart is so tired”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.”
― William Saroyan, The time of your life

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano