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  • #1
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature

  • #2
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #4
    Joanna Russ
    “There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”
    Joanna Russ

  • #5
    “Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.”
    Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

  • #6
    Philip K. Dick
    “I have seen myself backward.”
    Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

  • #7
    Mary Oliver
    “I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
    Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

  • #8
    Deborah Harkness
    “Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”
    Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

  • #9
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #10
    Philip K. Dick
    “The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #11
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #15
    Donna Tartt
    “For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #17
    Michelle Zauner
    “Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn't care if it hurt like hell in the meantime. When I got hurt, she felt it so deeply, it was as though it were her own affliction. She was guilty only of caring too much. I realize this now, only in retrospect. No one in this would would ever love me as much as my mother, and she would never let me forget it.”
    Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

  • #18
    Elena Ferrante
    “Maybe there’s something mistaken in this desire men have to instruct us; I was young at the time, and I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew how to be not only a man in the right way but also a woman. And today when he no longer senses me as part of himself, he feels betrayed. I”
    Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

  • #19
    Elena Ferrante
    “Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
    Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

  • #20
    Elena Ferrante
    “I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.”
    Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

  • #21
    Elena Ferrante
    “I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.”
    Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

  • #22
    Elena Ferrante
    “Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
    Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

  • #23
    Elena Ferrante
    “You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
    Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay



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