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“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
― Jeremy Bentham

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ”
― Jeremy Bentham

“I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
― George Carlin

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
― René Descartes

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
― Descartes

“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance”
― Rene Descartes

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
― René Descartes

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”
― René Descartes

“I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.”
― René Descartes, Selections

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method

“The affirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the grandiloquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, subvert the law that governs it, and change its future. The statement of oppression and the form of the sermon refer back to one another; they are mutually reinforcing”
― Michael Foucault

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
― Roland Barthes

“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]

“…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic Time; and the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence: to be no longer able to conceive duration, affectively or symbolically: the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short, of impatiences, of everything which denies ripening.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]

“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”
― Jacques Derrida

“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
― Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship

“You always return to the water...”
― Jacques Derrida, PARAGES

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Ea plânge şi-a căzut pe clape,
Şi geme greu ca în delir...
În dezacord clavirul moare,
Şi ninge ca-ntr-un cimitir.
(Nevroză)”
― George Bacovia

“Tot mai tăcut şi singur în lumea mea pustie – și tot mai mult m-apasă o grea mizantropie”
― George Bacovia, Complete Poetical Works and Selected Prose, 1881-1957

“Sunt câțiva morți în oraș, iubito,
Chiar pentru asta am venit să-ți spun;
Pe catafalc, de căldură-n oraș,
Încet, cadavrele se descompun.”
― George Bacovia, Complete Poetical Works and Selected Prose, 1881-1957