Sam Haelterman

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”
― Hélène Cixous

“Woorden lijken onschuldig, maar leg ze op de verkeerde plaats, op een verkeerd tijdstip en het worden landmijnen.”
― Ish Ait Hamou, Het moois dat we delen

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library