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    André Gide
    “I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like security for making one fall asleep; I like life well enough to live it awake, and so, in the very midst of my riches, I maintain the sensation of a state of precariousness, by which means I aggravate, or at any rate intensify, my life. I will not say I like danger, but I like life to be hazardous, and I want it to demand at every moment the whole of my courage, my happiness, my health...”
    André Gide, The Immoralist

  • #2
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #3
    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    Epicurus

  • #4
    Dan    Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #10
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli

  • #11
    Ayn Rand
    “Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #12
    Bruce Lee
    “The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #13
    S.M. Yair-Levy
    “He wanted to brand her, to stamp his mark into her flesh for the entire world to see she was his.”
    S. M. Yair-Levy, Stolen

  • #14
    Patrick Ness
    “We are the choices we make.”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #15
    Sun Tzu
    “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
    Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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