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“…the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others or to accept demands from others.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“I would like to be fucked properly!”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people.”
― dazai osamu, No Longer Human

“If it failed I had no choice but to hang myself…”
― dazai osamu, No Longer Human

“Then I smoked a few cigarettes, still in bed, till noon.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me.”
― albert camus, The Stranger

“That’s all for today, Monsieur Antichrist.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“For a person with autism who is trying to navigate a social situation, welcoming cues from a neurotypical might be interpreted as aversive cues. Up is down, and down is up.”
― Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

“And don’t make such a palaver about your feeling of innocence, it detracts from the not unfavorable impression you make otherwise.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“An actor in cinematography might as well be in a foreign country. He does not speak the language.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography by R. Bresson

“Your film will have the beauty, or the sadness, or what have you, that one finds in a town, in a countryside, in a house, and not the beauty, sadness, ect. that one finds in the photograph of a town, a countryside, or a house.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography by R. Bresson

“The sight of movement gives happiness: horse, athlete, bird.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography by R. Bresson

“With the centuries, the theatre has bourgeoisified. The CINEMA (photographed theatre) shows how far.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography by R. Bresson

“No psychology (of the kind which discovers only what it can explain).”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography by R. Bresson

“No, no, I’m never angry with anybody.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Couldn’t sleep cuz too many boners…”
― Tatsuki Fujimoto, Chainsawman Complete Set

“Everything was done so that he could make a good impression, but he spoils it all by laughing and he frightens people.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“K. said nothing, he did not even look up, he tolerated the fact that these two were arguing about him as if he were an inanimate object, he even preferred this.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“…opinions are often only an expression of despair.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“It was as if the shame would outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“…animals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sickness.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“Classical fables have archetypal figures - heroes, victims, martyrs, warriors. Neurological patients are all of these…”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“But who was more tragic, or who was more damned - the man who knew it, or the man who did not?”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Hallucinations / Awakenings

“…I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be ‘accepted’ by white people, still less to be loved by them…”
― James Baldwin, Fire Next Time

“Was Heaven, then, to be merely another ghetto?”
― James Baldwin, Fire Next Time

“White Americans do not understand the depths out of which such an ironic tenacity comes, but they suspect that the force is sensual, and they are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it.”
― James Baldwin, Fire Next Time

“But in order to deal with the untapped and dormant force of the previously subjugated, in order to survive as a human, moving, moral weight in the world, America and all the Western nations will be forced to reëxamine themselves and release themselves from many things that are now taken to be sacred, and to discard nearly all the assumptions that have been used to justify their lives and their anguish and their crimes so long.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― James Baldwin, Fire Next Time

“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know they could act that way.”
― James Baldwin, Fire Next Time

“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicket people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
― James Baldwin, Fire Next Time