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“„Если ты что-то не можешь выразить, этого "чего-то" как бы не существует.Вроде и есть, а на самом деле нет”
― Haruki Murakami

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I said.
“A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. “What’s that all about? A spring bear.”
“You’re walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, “Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?’ So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other’s arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?”
“Yeah. Really nice.”
“That’s how much I like you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

“If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
― Carl Sagan

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“ Все люди меняются. А какой в этом смысл я никогда не понимал. Мне так кажется, что любые перемены и любой прогресс в конечном счете сводятся к разрушению.
Поэтому у меня нет ни любви, ни симпатии к тем кто радостно идет навстречу пустоте.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Да, я – никто. Ты абсолютно прав. Одиночка, дрейфующий в ночном океане. Протяну руку – вокруг пустота. Закричу – никто не отзовется. Ни с кем на свете меня ничто не связывает.”
― Haruki Murakami