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“When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

“You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

“The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

“In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.”
― Kelly Cutrone, Normal Gets You Nowhere

“Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Le même sentiment d'inappartenance, de jeu inutile, où que j'aille : je feins de m'intéresser à ce qui ne m'importe guère, je me trémousse par automatisme ou par charité, sans jamais être dans le coup, sans jamais être quelque part. Ce qui m'attire est ailleurs, et cet ailleurs je ne sais ce qu'il est.”
― Emil Cioran

“look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The square root of I is I.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.”
― Kelly Cutrone

“It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“ma pis in piscina prietenilor mei- modul meu de a le mai dilua pretentiile”
― frederic beigbeder, L'Égoïste romantique

“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
― James Allen

“Cand afirma nu crede: cand crede, nu spune; iar cand tace, minte.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu

“Din tot ce-ai fost, nu mai ramîne decît o adiere patetica.”
― Emil Cioran, Cartea amăgirilor

“De două mii de ani Iisus se răzbună pe noi pentru că nu a murit pe o canapea.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“Dacă mă apucam să scriu franţuzeşte de cînd am venit în Franţa, azi aveam un nume şi alte posibilităţi; oricum ar fi, am reuşit să învăţ să scriu cu uşurinţă; uneori îmi pare mai greu să scriu în româneşte... Parisul a devenit un centru de români; eu nu-i caut şi fac tot posibilul să-i evit; după urma lor nu pot avea decît neplăceri; umblă de dimineaţa pînă seara de la unul la altul purtînd vorbe şi făcîndu-şi iluzii. Spectacolul unei colonii în străinătate e întotdeauna deprimant.”
― Emil Cioran, Scrisori către cei de-acasă

“Iubirea-o intalnire intre doua salive.”
― Emil Cioran, Breviário de decomposição

“Niciodată nu iubeşti mai mult pe cineva, decât atunci când te-ai hotărat sa-i faci rău. E şi mai al tău”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Fata din Zlataust

“Simpla constatare că eşti prost nu e dovadă de inteligenţă.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, La Medeleni [vol. 1-3]

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Ca sa inteleg Iadul, a trebuit mai intai sa trec prin el”
― Chris Simion, Ce ne spunem când nu ne vorbim