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“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
― Woody Allen

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
― Woody Allen

“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
― Woody Allen

“My brain? That's my second favorite organ.”
― Woody Allen

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
― Woody Allen

“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?”
― Woody Allen

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”
― Woody Allen

“We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. it is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more”
― Woody Allen

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
― Woody Allen

“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
― Woody Allen

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field