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“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“don't marry suffering. Some
people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat
together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy
they think it's adultery."
Yes, thought Wilhelm, suffering is the only kind of life
they are sure they can have, and if they quit suffering
they're afraid they'll have nothing.”
― Saul Bellow, Seize the Day

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“People think they are individuals because they use the word ''I'' so often.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News

“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Aš iš tavęs padariau žmogų. Bet kokį žmogų? To tėvai niekada nežino. Bent jau iš anksto; o kai sužino, būna per vėlu.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Manau, kad siaubas nėra baisiausia mūsų gyvenime. Jis visada čia. Pasirodo įvairiais pavidalais, kartais aptemdo mūsų buitį. Baisiausia yra atsukti siaubui nugarą ir užsimerkti. Tuomet tai, ką turime brangiausio, atiduodame kažkam kitam. (''Septintasis'')”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Iš to, ką kadaise galėjai palytėti, liko tik praradimo jausmas (''Tonis Takitanis")”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“All of the virtues depend upon truth, and truth depends upon them all. Final truth in this world is unattainable, but its pursuit leads the individual away from unfreedom. The temptation to believe what feels right assails us at all times from all directions. Authoritarianism begins when we can no longer tell the difference between the true and the appealing. The cynic who decides that there is no truth is the citizen who welcomes the tyrant.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“Two people do not lose themselves at the identical moment, or else they might find each other, and be saved. It is not as simple as that.”
― Patrick White, The Tree of Man

“Souls unite in the face of violence, if only on the common ground of frailty.”
― Patrick White, The Tree of Man

“For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,
the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. To
tell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hot
turds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if his
livelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved.”
― Henry Miller

“One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about. A frog's heaven, no doubt. Miasma, scum, pond lillies, stagnant water. Sit on a lily pad unmolested and croak all day. Something like that, I imagine.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Women can die gently -.. -. Men always die in torment. Why? Towards the end, men break the habit of a lifetime, and start blaming themselves, with full male severity. Women break a habit too, and start blaming themselves no longer. They forgive.”
― Martin Amis, House of Meetings