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#121

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

#122

“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
― Don DeLillo, Conversations with Don Delillo

570 likes

#123

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6726 likes

#124

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: loneliness, people, scared, world

4257 likes

#125

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

3530 likes

#126

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4607 likes

#127

“Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
― John Gardner

tags: reality, self-pity

348 likes

#128

“When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

tags: disappointment, experience, life, love, maturity

144 likes

#129

“The further in you go, the bigger it gets.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

tags: esoteric-wisdom

53 likes

#130

“Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.”
― Peter Sloterdijk

18 likes

#131

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

2368 likes

#132

“La noche es el espejo de los deformes.”
― José Sbarra, Obsesión de vivir

2 likes

#133

“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

tags: justice, law

190 likes

#134

“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

88 likes

#135

“…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

tags: contrariness, defiance

15 likes

#136

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

tags: damnation, evil, religion

14 likes

#137

“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

90 likes

#138

“He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays

66 likes

#139

“Nihil est sine ratione.
[There is nothing without a reason.]”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

tags: leibniz, nothing, reason

64 likes

#140

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4762 likes

#141

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

1743 likes

#142

“Él sabía que el porvenir era un retroceder veloz hacia la muerte y la muerte el estado perfecto, el momento precioso en que el hombre recupera plenamente su otra memoria.”
― Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

25 likes

#143

“The individual is identified with the perishable; what can become eternal in the individual pertains exclusively to the separate and unique active Intelligence.”
― Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi

10 likes

#144

“Mira, te cuento mi experiencia porque tengo ganas de oírme”
― Carlos Monsivais

9 likes

#145

“Vivimos muy mal pero nada de eso importa porque a ratos nos sentimos muy bien”
― Carlos Monsivais

6 likes

#146

“The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.”
― Peter Gay, Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

8 likes

#147

“If you have no more happiness to give:
Give me your pain.”
― Lou Andreas-Salomé

94 likes

#148

“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
― Lou Andreas-Salome

tags: on-poetry-and-dreams

78 likes

#149

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce

1660 likes

#150

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

1730 likes

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