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“Дура с сердцем и без ума такая же несчастная дура, как и дура с умом без сердца. Старая истина”
― Федор Достоевский, Идиот

“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“[Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.”
― New Yorker

“A really good detective never gets married.”
― Raymond Chandler

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”
― Stephen Fry

“You deserve to need me, not to have me.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”
― LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Croire qu’il lui appartient de dépasser sa condition et de s’orienter vers celle de surhomme, c’est oublier qu’il a du mal à tenir le coup en tant qu’homme, et qu’il n’y parvient qu’à force de tendre sa volonté, son ressort, au maximum.”
― Emil Cioran, The Fall into Time

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.”
― Quentin Tarantino

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Your neck. I want to kiss it.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Her Own Rules

“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet