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“Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward Said

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“I will never go back. For the simple reason that all the Russia I need, after all, is with me--always with me. Her literature, her language, my own Russian childhood. I will never return, I will never surrender.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas With eyes shut I walk across the line in time All the time—”
― Gulzar, Half a Rupee: Stories

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there’s this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
― Aristotle

“My life is dope and I do dope shit.”
― Kanye West