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“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“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

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx