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“Нейната интелигентност я спасява от възможността да попадне в ръцете на кой да е глупав мъж. Това не и пречи обаче да тича бясно по най-просташки удоволствия.”
― Димитър Димов

“Понякога врагът е по-ценен от приятеля”
― Джеймс Клавел "Търговска къща"

“Домът е топъл вир. Гмурнеш се, когато навън реже остър вятър. И ти е добре така, на топло у топлия вир. Но не може да стоиш вечно на топло у топлия вир. Все някога ще трябва да излезеш на вятъра и да поемеш дъх от острия вятър. И да спреш вятъра. Да застанеш с лице срещу лицето на вятъра...”
― Георги Божинов, Калуня-каля

“Човекът е това, което му остава, след като изгуби всичко!”
― Blaga Dimitrova, Лавина

“...единственото нещо, за което си струва да говориш, е това, което чувстваш. Човек трябва да говори само това, което чувства.”
― Вирджиния Улф

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

“If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

“Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Atomised

“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling.

Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“Каквото и да си говорим, образованието има своите предимства. Да, неголеми, така е. Но ако нямаш други, какъвто най-често е случаят, само това остава.”
― Milen Ruskov, Thrown into Nature

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“One of the sicknesses of the twentieth century? I'll tell you the worst one. People can't stand to be alone. Can't tolerate it! So they go to the movies, get drive-in hamburgers, put their home telephone numbers in the crapsheets and say 'Please call me up!' It's sick. People hate their own company --- they cry when they see themselves in mirrors. It scares them, the way their faces look. Maybe that's a clue to the whole thing...”
― Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast

“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
― Paul Theroux