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“Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“Like all man who have lived much alone, he adjusted himself better to ideas than to people.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?”
― Anonymous

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
― Mark Twain

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“... in life, people talk, although it is understood that most of the time, nothing important is said, or at least nothing essential.”
― Thierry Groensteen, The System of Comics

“God is no wise a safety net for the blind. He’s not someone to be commanded to peform magic tricks, or forced into Self-relvelation – not even by His own Son.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World / Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Think Rich to Get Rich

“What are Facebook and other social media but adverts for how we’d like to be seen?”
― John Yorke, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

“The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When these images clash – as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting-pot – it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone.”
― Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis

“Love between man and woman is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“A to, co wyobrażone, jest pierwszym stadium istnienia.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Czuły narrator

“Rak może cię wykończyć, nieszczerość zrobi to na pewno.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's