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  • #1
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #2
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “Some things you miss because they’re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don’t see because they’re so huge.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  • #3
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #4
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “Dad?"
    "What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.
    "What should I be when I grow up?"
    The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #5
    Timothy Snyder
    “Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
    Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

  • #6
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #7
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #8
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #11
    Mike Bond
    “In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.” − Carl Sagan”
    Mike Bond, The Drum That Beats Within Us

  • #12
    Elliot Perlman
    “There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.”
    Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #14
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment



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