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“I write because you exist.”
― Michael Faudet

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Tijesan mi bijaše vijek, a velebna bješe mi duša.”
― Janko Polić Kamov, Ištipana hartija

“- Da te ona odbije, šta bi ti?
- Poludio zacijelo ne bih.
- Onda to nije ljubav!”
― Janko Polić Kamov, Ispovijest heroja naših dana: novele i lakrdije

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?” (Thoreau).”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Ući u balon? Nije li u tome sve? Sunovratiti se u - nebo? Zašto ostati čovjek? Zašto ne biti planet? Zašto ne možemo padati - gore?”
― Janko Polić Kamov, Isušena kaljuža

“Ne niče li to ideja? Misli? Mrmore, sukobljuju se, prepiru i ljube i opet množe u beskraj, u vječnost ko živa bića.”
― Janko Polić Kamov, Drame

“In my yellow room,
Sunflowers with purple eyes stands out on a yellow background.
They bath their stems in a yellow pot, on a yellow table.
In a corner of the painting, the signature of the painter: Vincent.
And the yellow sun that passes through the yellow curtains of my room floods all this fluorescence with gold.
And in the morning upon awakening, from my bed,
I imagin that all this smells very good.
Oh yes! He loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from holland.
Those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul
That abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
When two of us were together in arles, both of us mad and at constant war over the beauty of color, me, i loved the color red,
Where to find a perfect vermilion?
He traced with his most yellow brush on the wall,
Suddenly turned violet.

Je suis saint esprit
Je suis sain d'espri.

Paul gauguin, 1894.”
― Paul Gauguin