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“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
― Flannery O' Connor, Wise Blood

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Ми здатні мислити тому, що в нас є слова. Без них ми позбудемося пам'яті, щоб озирати минуле, або уяви, щоб бачити проблиски майбутнього. Без слів ми назавжди будемо ув'язнені в тут і тепер.”
― Patricia Forde, The List

“Гармати не зупинити жодними угодами.”
― Ірина Грабовська, Остання обитель бунтарства

“Коли температура –20 °C і кожного дня когось вбивають, але хворі й перемучені солдати обирають не відмовитися від наказу, а знову й знову залазити в окопи, мерзнути і пильнувати ворога — це така Служба Божа, якої не зустріти у жодному храмі.”
― Артур Дронь, Гемінґвей нічого не знає