Marie

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Já z něho mám strach," řekl Čuňas, "a proto ho znám. Když se někoho bojíš, tak ho sice nenávidíš, ale nemůžeš si pomoct, abys na něho v jednom kuse nemyslel. Namlouváš si, že von vlastně není zlej, ale když ho pak zase uvidíš, tak to je zrovna jako astma - nemůžeš ani dejchat. A já ti něco povím. Von tebe taky nenávidí, Raplhe -”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simbal!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate