"Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility."
— Simone de Beauvoir

"In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
— Andy Warhol

"l'enfer, c'est les autres"
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please-a little less love, and a little more common decency."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

"Plato was a bore."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Our aspirations are wrapped up in books."
— Belle & Sebastian

"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
— Albert Camus

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..."
— Albert Schweitzer

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges