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  • #1
    Frédéric Bastiat
    “If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
    Frederic Bastiat, The Law

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    Ray Bradbury
    “If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #4
    Ray Bradbury
    “Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #5
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
    evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
    disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
    shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
    Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
    of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #6
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
    'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
    'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #8
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

  • #9
    Gillian Flynn
    “My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

    He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

    But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

    'Why?'

    'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “Sanity is not statistical.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #13
    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #14
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #15
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “We're the only ones who care now. The likes of you and me, Ono, when we look back over our lives and see they were flawed, we're the only ones who care now.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

  • #16
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Goodbye blue Monday.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
    "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
    "The big show is inside my head," I said.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #20
    Robert Jordan
    “Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
    Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
    tags: elyas

  • #21
    Robert Jordan
    “I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
    Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
    Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Science is magic that works.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

    And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

    "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

    "Certainly," said man.

    "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

    And He went away.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

  • #26
    Hermann Hesse
    “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
    Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #28
    Marjane Satrapi
    “Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly..." - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.”
    Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

  • #29
    Marjane Satrapi
    “The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
    Are my trousers long enough?
    Is my veil in place?
    Can my make-up be seen?
    Are they going to whip me?

    No longer asks herself:
    Where is my freedom of thought?
    Where is my freedom of speech?
    My life, is it liveable?
    What's going on in the political prisons?”
    Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

  • #30
    Haruki Murakami
    “two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
    Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World



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