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“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“(Non è divertente?)
Quando eravamo ragazzi distesi sull’erba a pancia in giù parlavamo spesso di come ci sarebbe piaciuto morire. Ed eravamo tutti d’accordo su una cosa: ci sarebbe piaciuto morir scopando(E nessuno di noi aveva mai scopato fino allora). Ora che non siamo più bambini pensiamo di più a come non morire. E anche se siamo pronti molti di noi preferirebbero farlo da soli sotto le lenzuola. Ora che la maggior parte di noi ha fottuto via la propria vita.”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“Così continuamo a remare, barche contro corrente, risospinti senza posa nel passato.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“Chi cerca l'infinito non ha che da chiudere gli occhi.”
― Milan Kundera

“Si usa uno specchio di vetro per guardare il viso; e si usano le opere d’arte per guardare la propria anima.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Se non scrivo quello che vedo effettivamente accadere su questo globo infelice racchiuso nei contorni del mio teschio penserò che il povero Dio mi abbia mandato sulla terra per niente.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Tre fiammiferi di fila accesi nella notte
il primo per vedere tutto il tuo viso
il secondo per vedere i tuoi occhi
il terzo per vedere la tua bocca
e l'oscurità intera per ricordare tutto questo
mentre ti stringo tra le braccia.”
― Jacques Prévert

“Démons et merveilles
Vents et marées
Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée”
― Jacques Prévert

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?'
No, what?' I would say.
A piece of dust.'
Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.'
And of course Buddy wouldn't have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick or couldn't sleep.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

“Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma.”
― Cesare Pavese

“The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.”
― Cesare Pavese

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“Half the fun is plan to plan”
― Tim Burton

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”
― Tim Burton

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion