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“Look for the answer inside your question.”
― Rumi

“He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.”
― Terry Gilliam

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.”
― Plato

“The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient, is no part of the polis, and must therefore be either a beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

“Nu există, prietene, decât o singură ştiinţă, aflată pretutindeni, [...] ea este prezentă în mine şi în tine şi în orice fiinţă. Şi astfel încep să cred: ştiinţa aceasta nu are alt duşman mai straşnic decât voinţa de a şti, decât învăţatul.”
― Herman Hesse

“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”
― Peter Jackson

“Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet also, without any reason, nothing at all can happen.”
― Reza Negarestani

“You think you know. Then you lower your guard and act as though everything's just great. With the passage of time, you stop paying as much attention to things as you should. You're confident. What more can you do? Life is smiling on you. So is luck. You can afford your dreams. Everything's fine, everything blesses you...and then, without warning, the sky falls in on your head. And once you're flat on your back, you realize that your life, your whole life - with its ups and downs, its pains and pleasures, its promises and failures, hangs and has always hung by a thread as flimsy and imperceptible as the threads in a spider's web. Suddenly, the slightest sound terrifies you, and no longer feel like believing in anything whatsoever. All you want to do is close your eyes and think no more”
― Yasmina Khadra

“Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces.”
― Schelling

“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― rudyard Kipling

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“That day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“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

“O singură rugăciune am: Doamne să nu mă laşi niciodată să fiu mulţumit de mine însumi.”
― Lucian Blaga

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
― Ray Bradbury

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“When the elderly Jew climbed to his feet for the last time and continued on, he looked briefly back. He took a
last sad glance at the man who was kneeling now himself, whose back was burning with four lines of fire,
whose knees were aching on the road. If nothing else, the old man would die like a human. Or at least with the
thought that he was a human.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera