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  • #1
    Alice Walker
    “Be nobody's darling;
    Be an outcast.
    Take the contradictions
    Of your life
    And wrap around
    You like a shawl,
    To parry stones
    To keep you warm.

    Watch the people succumb
    To madness
    With ample cheer;
    Let them look askance at you
    And you askance reply.

    Be an outcast;
    Be pleased to walk alone
    (Uncool)
    Or line the crowded
    River beds
    With other impetuous
    Fools.

    Make a merry gathering
    On the bank
    Where thousands perished
    For brave hurt words
    They said.

    Be nobody's darling;
    Be an outcast.
    Qualified to live
    Among your dead.”
    Alice Walker, Everyday Use

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

  • #3
    Ayn Rand
    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #4
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    Arthur Rimbaud

  • #5
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #6
    Federico García Lorca
    “Verde que te quiero verde.
    Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
    El barco sobre la mar
    y el caballo en la montaña.
    Con la sombra en la cintura
    ella sueña en su baranda,
    verde carne, pelo verde,
    con ojos de fría plata.”
    Federico García Lorca, Romancero gitano

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
    William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

  • #11
    Pablo Neruda
    “Yo te he nombrado reina.
    Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
    Hay más puras que tú, más puras.
    Hay más bellas que tú, hay más bellas.

    Pero tú eres la reina.

    Cuando vas por las calles
    nadie te reconoce.
    Nadie ve tú corona de cristal, nadie mira
    la alfombra de oro rojo
    que pisas cuando pasas,
    la alfombra que no existe.

    Y cuando asomas
    suenan todos los ríos
    en mi cuerpo, sacuden
    el cielo las campanas,
    y un himno llena el mundo

    Sóló tú y yo,
    sóló tú y yo, amor mío,
    lo escuchamos.”
    Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses

  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
    An evil soul producing holy witness
    Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
    A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
    O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #14
    Ayn Rand
    “Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #15
    Ayn Rand
    “There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #16
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Quand le monde sera réduit en un seul bois noir pour nos quatre yeux étonnés, - en une plage pour deux enfants fidèles, - en une maison musicale pour notre claire sympathie, - je vous trouverai.”
    Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
    Lewis Carroll



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