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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There is another world, and it is in this one.”
― Paul Éluard

“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Μας έλεγαν θα νικήσετε όταν υποταχτείτε.
Υποταχτήκαμε και βρήκαμε τη στάχτη.
Μας έλεγαν θα νικήσετε όταν αγαπήσετε.
Αγαπήσαμε και βρήκαμε τη στάχτη.
Μας έλεγαν θα νικήσετε όταν εγκαταλείψετε τη ζωή σας.
Εγκαταλείψαμε τη ζωή μας και βρήκαμε τη στάχτη...
Βρήκαμε τη στάχτη. Μένει να ξαναβρούμε τη ζωή μας, τώρα που δεν έχουμε πια τίποτα. Φαντάζομαι εκείνος που θα ξαναβρεί τη ζωή, έξω από τόσα χαρτιά, τόσα συναισθήματα, τόσες διαμάχες και τόσες διδασκαλίες, θα είναι κάποιος σαν εμάς, μόνο λιγάκι πιο σκληρός στη μνήμη.”
― Γιώργος Σεφέρης, Τετράδιο γυμνασμάτων: 1928-1937

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Αλίμονο σ' όποιον πρωτοτυπεί μιλώντας.”
― Stendhal

“My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night; slithering and curling around my soul as it slowly devoured me. It was draining my energy and replacing it with an evil I was afraid to confront.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness