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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Кто хочет удержать - тот теряет. Кто готов с улыбкой отпустить - того стараются удержать.”
― Эрих Мария Ремарк, Heaven Has No Favorites

“Как односторонен человек, он признает только собственный опыт, и только ту опасность, которая угрожает ему лично.”
― Эрих Мария Ремарк, Heaven Has No Favorites

“Каким неуклюжим становится человек, когда он любит по-настоящему! Как быстро слетает с него самоуверенность! И каким одиноким он себе кажется; весь его хваленый опыт вдруг рассеивается, как дым, и он чувствует себя таким неуверенным!”
― Эрих Мария Ремарк, Heaven Has No Favorites

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.”
― Francis Picabia

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver

“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“People living alone get used to loneliness.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Все неловкие души
За несчастных всегда известны.”
― Sergei Esenin

“And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems

“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

“If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
― William S. Burroughs

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“First we feel. Then we fall.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.”
― H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems