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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #2
    Caspar David Friedrich
    “You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
    Caspar David Friedrich

  • #3
    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    John Keats

  • #4
    Matsuo Bashō
    “Winter solitude-
    in a world of one colour
    the sound of the wind.”
    Basho Matsuo

  • #5
    Kobayashi Issa
    “Here
    I'm here-
    the snow falling.”
    Issa

  • #6
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #7
    Claude Monet
    “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
    Claude Monet

  • #8
    Arvo Pärt
    “You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free--you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.”
    Arvo Pärt

  • #9
    Samuel Johnson
    “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
    Samuel Johnson

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been
    As others were - I have not seen
    As others saw - I could not bring
    My passions from a common spring -”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Alone

  • #11
    E.M. Forster
    “England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
    E.M. Forster, Maurice

  • #12
    A.E. Housman
    When I Was One-And-Twenty

    When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard a wise man say,
    “Give crowns and pounds and guineas
    But not your heart away;
    Give pearls away and rubies
    But keep your fancy free.”
    But I was one-and-twenty,
    No use to talk to me.

    When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard him say again,
    “The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.”
    And I am two-and-twenty,
    And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.”
    A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

  • #13
    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #14
    Robert Browning
    “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.”
    Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

  • #15
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    “When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
    Dmitri Shostakovich

  • #16
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

  • #17
    Leonard Bernstein
    “This will be our reply to violence:
    to make music more intensely,
    more beautifully,
    more devotedly than ever before.”
    Leonard Bernstein

  • #18
    Plato
    “And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
    Plato, The Symposium

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    John Donne
    “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

    [The Autumnal]”
    John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

  • #21
    William Blake
    “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
    William Blake

  • #22
    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #23
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

  • #24
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If we surrendered
    to earth's intelligence
    we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #25
    John Cage
    “In our forests
    part divine
    and makes her heart palpitate
    wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!”
    John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72

  • #26
    Richard Dawkins
    “Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe, or for the lawfulness that governs its workings. Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles. Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intelligence, rather than the pantheist’s metaphoric or poetic synonym for the laws of the universe. Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition

  • #27
    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

  • #28
    Sophocles
    “Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”
    Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

  • #29
    Gustav Mahler
    “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
    Gustav Mahler

  • #30
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.”
    Arthur Rimbaud



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