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

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    Ranata Suzuki
    “Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with an intensity and a passion I had never experienced before. And to their credit they were right; It all came and went so fast it really did feel as if it were just ‘one day’....”
    Ranata Suzuki

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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

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    Franz Kafka
    “I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
    Franz Kafka

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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    Franz Kafka

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    Franz Kafka
    “My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”
    Franz Kafka

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    Franz Kafka
    “We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
    Franz Kafka

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    Franz Kafka
    “Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
    Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
    Franz Kafka

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    Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so
    “Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.”
    Atwood H. Townsend, Good Reading

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    “Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.”
    Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast

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    Alain de Botton
    “Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.”
    Alain de Botton

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    “A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.”
    Charles Caleb Colton

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    Horace Walpole

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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

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    Henri Cartier-Bresson
    “To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
    Henri Cartier-Bresson

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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
    Wayne W. Dyer

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    Santosh Kalwar
    “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
    Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

  • #23
    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    Brian Jacques, Taggerung

  • #24
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #25
    Jeffrey McDaniel
    “I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”
    Jeffrey McDaniel

  • #26
    Milan Kundera
    “The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
    Milan Kundera, Ignorance

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    Amy Bloom
    “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
    Amy Bloom, Away

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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #29
    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “We're not words, Henry, we're people.
    Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
    Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

  • #30
    Jon   Stewart
    “It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
    Jon Stewart, Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

  • #31
    Stephen Fry
    “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '.

    Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice.

    I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”
    Stephen Fry



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