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“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”
― Oscar Wilde

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

“In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.”
― Marcel Proust

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“If you can spell "Nietzsche" without Google, you deserve a cookie.”
― Lauren Leto

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
― Albert Camus

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“your judgement judges you and defines you”
― SARTRE JEAN-PAUL

“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”
― Jean-Paul Satre

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair