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  • #1
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #2
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #3
    Zhuangzi
    “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
    Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

  • #4
    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #5
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #7
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    Marie Curie

  • #8
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #9
    Man Ray
    “I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.”
    Man Ray

  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #11
    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #16
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #17
    Richard P. Feynman
    “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #18
    Alan W. Watts
    “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
    Alan Watts

  • #19
    George Orwell
    “(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
    (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
    (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
    (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.
    (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
    (vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

  • #20
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

  • #21
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #22
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #23
    Jack Gilbert
    “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
    Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires

  • #24
    Hermann Weyl
    “Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.”
    Hermann Weyl

  • #25
    Carl Friedrich Gauß
    “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
    Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • #26
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #27
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #28
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #29
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #30
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Yo no hablo de venganzas ni perdones, el olvido es la única venganza y el único perdón.”
    Borges



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