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“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
― Mark Twain

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Accio Brain!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad

“El nubarrón de moscas, euménides zumbonas que improvisaban
un halo furioso sobre la gran cabeza. La Madre y doña Chon
miraron la cara babosa y el baberio y la dormidera boba con lagartijo
muerto en la mano: El Nene mordía la cabeza del lagartijo hasta
que el rabo descansaba la guardia, el mismo rabo que trampado en
la garganta convidaba al vómito. La Madre y doña Chon miraron el
vómito: archipiélago de miserias, islas sanguinolientas, collares de
vómito, vómito como caldo de sopa china, espesos cristales, sopa china
de huevo, convención de todos los amarillos en el vómito, amarillos
tatuados por jugos de china, amarillos soliviantados por la
transparencia sucia de la baba, cristales espesos por granos de arroz:
un vómito como Dios manda”
― Luis Rafael Sanchez, La guaracha del Macho Camacho

“Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.

An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.”
― Douglas Adams

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
― Joe Ancis

“La vanidad se encuentra en los lugares más inesperados: al lado de la bondad, de la abnegación, de la generosidad.”
― Ernesto Sábato

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
― George Carlin

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
― Carl Sagan

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan

“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
― Samuel Butler

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches