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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“...for unless I am myself, I am nobody.”
― Virginia Woolf, Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

“Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house.”
― Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

“There was a great difference, I said, between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and forever made my peace with that fact, I had decided to want nothing at all.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“You could spend your whole life’, she said, ‘trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object; unless,’ she said, ‘the mother’s sacrifice of herself is absolute, which mine never could have been, and which no woman’s ought to be these days.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“It appears that after every death, just as after every birth, the world begins anew.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Death and the Gardener

“Geçmişte zaman tek yönlü akmaz.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Death and the Gardener

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“In the small and the insignificant – that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Funny what things are left to twinkle in the end, the last glimmer before darkness.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Физика на тъгата

“I can feel myself giving up over time. Getting used to it. Old age is getting used to things.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“I write in the first person to make sure that I’m still alive.
I write in the third person to make sure that I’m not just a projection of my own self, that I’m three-dimensional and have a body.
Sometimes I nudge a glass and note with satisfaction that it falls and breaks. So I do still exist and cause consequences.
If no one is watching me, then I’ll have to watch myself, so as not to turn into quantum soup.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“I thought to myself that only now had she begun to sell her
children. When she started telling about them. Without a story, it was
all nothing but business.
Telling stories is part of Judgment Day, because it makes people understand. But what the point of understanding is remains unclear. I
put these stories in the box, too.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“Crying requires air, crying is a long,
audible exhalation of fear.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Физика на тъгата

“What happened to the names after their owners died? Were they set free? Did the names continue to mean something, or did they disintegrate like the bodies beneath them, leaving only the bones of consonants?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter