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  • #1
    William S. Burroughs
    “Gentle reader, we see God through our assholes in the flash bulb of orgasm.”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #2
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    Socrates

  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #4
    Maxim Gorky
    “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
    Maxim Gorky

  • #5
    Samuel Beckett
    “Estragon: What about hanging ourselves?
    Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.”
    Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #8
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #9
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

  • #10
    Oğuz Atay
    “Kafam cam kırıklarıyla dolu doktor. Bu nedenle beynimin her hareketinde düşüncelerim acıyor anlıyor musun?”
    Oğuz Atay, Tehlikeli Oyunlar

  • #11
    Mary Hunter Austin
    “We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
    Mary Austin

  • #13
    Carl Sagan
    “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #14
    Maxim Gorky
    “When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
    Maxim Gorky
    tags: 1926

  • #15
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #16
    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  • #17
    William S. Burroughs
    “Sodomy is as old as the human species.”
    William S. Burroughs
    tags: gay

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #20
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #21
    Yusuf Atılgan
    “Sevilende bizimle ortak duygular vardır sanırız.”
    Yusuf Atılgan, Aylak Adam

  • #22
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Motto"

    In the dark times
    Will there also be singing?
    Yes, there will also be singing.
    About the dark times.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #24
    Georges Bataille
    “A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
    Georges Bataille



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