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#151

“Z ironią
spowiadam się Bogu w Jego pierwszej, drugiej i trzeciej osobie
liczby pojedynczej i mnogiej, w jego nijakim, jak sądzę, rodzaju,
że przyszedłem na świat 25 lat temu, a tego co było dalej
choćbym znał wszystkie języki, jakie na świecie tym znają,
I don’t understand, ich verstehe nicht, nie ponimaju

~ "Konfesata”
― Jacek Podsiadło, Być może należało mówić

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#152

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: honesty, pretense, truthfulness

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#153

“Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

tags: romance, ya

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#154

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

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#155

“Zaraz zrobimy kawę. Wprawdzie nie mam kawy, filiżanek i pieniędzy, ale od
czego jest nadrealizm, metafizyka, poetyka snów.”
― Tadeusz Różewicz

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#156

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
― Judith Thurman

tags: dreamer, explore, travel

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#157

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#158

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

tags: art, love

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#159

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, calling, life

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#160

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#161

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

tags: art

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#162

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

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#163

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

tags: brevity, darkness, death, life, light, reality

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#164

“Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: lolita, love, nabokov, vladimir-nabokov

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#165

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#166

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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#167

“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: dandelions

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#168

“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: books, fame, lolita, names, obscure, writers

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#169

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

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#170

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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#171

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: change

2275 likes

#172

“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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#173

“In the meantime, I hope you will find your place, wherever you are. Even in the silence, I hope you will find the words you need to share.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

tags: feelings-and-emotions, life, love, rd16

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#174

“In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.”
― Donna Tartt

tags: books, movies, writing

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#175

“My memory begins with my anger.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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#176

“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: existentialism, god

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#177

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

3434 likes

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