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“Hỡi ôi! Khi người ta mười bảy tuổi ai cũng mộng, nhưng chẳng một mộng nào thành sự thực bao giờ? Cuộc sống phũ phàng. Đời thì buồn mà kiếp người thì khổ lắm rồi. Sao họ còn muốn gây buồn, gây khổ cho nhau nữa?”
― Nhất Linh, Gánh hàng hoa

“When our eyes fall on those who lack the bare necessities, we immediately sympathize and express outrage that they do not have enough, but we do not for a moment allow ourselves to think that their deprivation may be the product of the same process that led to our affluence”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter

“I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt -- and there is the story of mankind.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened—and even then, it’s still debatable. That’s why accepting the inevitable imperfections of our values is necessary for any growth to take place. Instead”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“All systems of domination work by enveloping us in their narrative and superstitions in such a way that we cannot see beyond them. Taking a step or two back, finding a way to inspect them from the outside, allows us a glimpse of how imperfect, how ludicrous, they are. Securing this glimpse keeps you in touch with reality.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

“Which is better, to vote for what you want and can’t get, or to vote for what you don’t want and get it?”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“Democracy at its most base, supporting leaders only in return for their sating of greed. The ever-lasting nipple.”
― Donald E. Westlake, The Ax

“You'll write more poems. They are not lost. You are the poetry”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam