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  • #1
    Ovid
    “Bene vixit, bene qui latuit."

    (To live well is to live concealed.)
    Ovid, The Tristia of Ovid

  • #2
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

    Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #4
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

  • #7
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #7
    Emil M. Cioran
    “A book is a suicide postponed.”
    Cioran

  • #8
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #9
    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    Émile Zola

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
    Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “We must be our own before we can be another's.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “That's the horror of it for me, that I understand everything!”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #12
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #14
    William Gibson
    “We see in order to move; we move in order to see.”
    William Gibson

  • #15
    Jim Morrison
    “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
    Jim Morrison

  • #16
    Alan             Moore
    “I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”
    Alan Moore, From Hell

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
    William Shakespeare, King Lear

  • #18
    Alan             Moore
    “Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart...
    ...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.”
    Alan Moore, From Hell

  • #19
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Love...no such thing.

    Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

    Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
    Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: love

  • #20
    Inio Asano
    “Happiness" describes moments, and it's never permanent.”
    Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1

  • #21
    Marcel Proust
    “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #22
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”
    H. P. Lovecraft, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

  • #23
    Takehiko Inoue
    “There is no light for those who do not know darkness.”
    Takehiko Inoue

  • #24
    Yu Hua
    “We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.”
    Yu Hua, 十個詞彙裡的中國

  • #25
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    Stéphane Mallarmé

  • #26
    Yu Hua
    “Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams.”
    Yu Hua, 十個詞彙裡的中國

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #28
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #29
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #30
    Laurence Sterne
    “Human nature is the same in all professions.”
    Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman



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