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“There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” I can see in these words a motto which holds true for any psychotherapy. In the Nazi concentration camps, one could have witnessed that those who knew that there was a task waiting for them to fulfill were most apt to survive.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something—such as goodness, truth and beauty—by experiencing nature and culture or, last but not least, by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness—by loving him.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Height, weight and body mass index.’ Gene was skimming ahead. ‘Can’t you do the calculation yourself?’ ‘That’s the purpose of the question,’ I said. ‘Checking they can do basic arithmetic. I don’t want a partner who’s mathematically illiterate.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Fabienne took a deep breath. ‘Listen. I have drunk two glasses of wine, I have not had sex for six weeks, and I would rather wait six more than try anyone else here. Now, can I buy you a drink?’ It was a very kind offer. But it was still early in the evening. I said, ‘More guests are expected. You may find someone suitable if you wait.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“I have heard the word ‘stunning’ used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“I arrived at 7.04 p.m. only to find that the bar did not open until 9.00 p.m. Incredible. No wonder people make mistakes at work. Would it be full of surgeons and flight controllers, drinking until after midnight then working the next day?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?’ ‘I’ve got crap in my life that I wish I hadn’t. And I’m not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“My wife and I had come to visit Lucy Ferry. Bryan was away on business. I was relieved. Who wants to meet their childhood heroes?”
― Anonymous

“And as we take up our positions on the stage, we call upon the nine Muses for assistance, Calliope, who helps with the epic ballads, Euterpe, who helps with the sad songs, Erato, who helps with the confessional songs, Clio, who helps with the oldies, Melpomene, who helps with the super-tragic stuff, Polyhymnia, who helps with the religious songs, Terpsichore, who helps with the dance numbers, Thalia, who helps with the funny songs, And Urania, who helps when it gets spacey and psychedelic.”
― Anonymous

“It’s not so easy writing about nothing.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“My Morocco. I followed whatever train I wanted. I wrote without writing—of genies and hustlers and mythic travelers, my vagabondia. Then I would walk back home, happily”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“In the beginning was real time. A woman enters a garden that is bursting with color. She has no memory, only a burgeoning curiosity. She approaches the man. He is not curious. He stands before a tree.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“Not all dreams need to be realized.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing?”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn’t do today really could be put off until tomorrow.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners,”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. Colleen”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“The man who ‘forgets’ his toothbrush in a woman’s house is a man who wants to come back.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity