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“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon

“You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Светът е сега е грозен и без надежда, и без вяра. Той затова е грозен - няма вяра, няма цел, няма надежда. И човек, за да прости цялата му грозота, пие или се побърква, захваща се с някакви дреболии и глупости, със самозаблуди.”
― Калин Терзийски, Алкохол

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Чамовите дъски, покривали някога пода на този нещастен дом, са били изтръгнати със сила, за да бъде разпален огън от тях. А там, където има огън, има и топлина, и сажди от пушек, и миризма на съхнещи дрехи. Премръзнали ръце и уши. Красиво осветени любовни сцени. А после - пепел. И въглени, разбира се.”
― Момчил Николов, Машини за любов

“Сега нищо не е добре. Тялото ми е развалина. Умът ми е опустошен. Мислите ми са бавни и несвързани. Пак усещам хлъзгавите ледени змии, които се плъзват по външната повърхност на черепа ми, под кожата. Мръсните влечуги искат да нахлуят в главата ми и да се сплетат в кълбо. Едно огромно и студено кълбо, което съвсем скоро ще поеме контрол върху тялото ми.”
― Момчил Николов, Машини за любов

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.”
― George Orwell

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It's the style that gets you; technological ugliness syruped
over with romantic phoniness in an effort to produce beauty and profit by
people who, though stylish, don't know where to start because no one has
ever told them there's such a thing as Quality in this world and it's real, not
style. Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like
tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects
and objects, the cone from which the tree must start.”
― Robert Pirsig

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451