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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We're going forward, but nothing changes.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“The fascination of the abomination.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges