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“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“UNAVEN K SMRTI NUDNOU ROLÍ
sám sebe hrát, - že jsem... Chci spát
předstírám spánek, tvář mne bolí
vším, čím jsem byl, jsem nebyl rád

Jak se mi zdá, nic se mi nezdá
už nemám o čem dát si zdát
na nebi bledne moje hvězda
vším, čím jsem nebyl, byl jsem rád”
― J. H. Krchovský

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
― Jim Morrison

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.”
― Jim Morrison

“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.”
― Jim Morrison

“She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”
― Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

“The grand highway is crowded with lovers
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness”
― Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

“The Night is young
& full of rest
I can’t describe
the way she’s dress’d
She’ll pander to some strange
requests
Anything that you suggest
Anything to please her guest.”
― Jim Morrison, The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol. 1: Wilderness

“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”
― Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1