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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “Her absence is like the sky spread over everything.”
    C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

  • #2
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

  • #3
    Hermann Hesse
    “Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
    Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #4
    Hermann Hesse
    “I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #5
    Maxim Gorky
    “The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
    Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
    tags: art

  • #6
    Maxim Gorky
    “If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”
    Maxim Gorky

  • #7
    Boethius
    “Nunc fluens facit tempus,
    nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

    (The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
    Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

  • #8
    J. Krishnamurti
    “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • #9
    J. Krishnamurti
    “Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #10
    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.”
    Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

  • #11
    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “A nomad I will remain for life,
    in love with distant and uncharted places.”
    Isabelle Eberhardt

  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #13
    Emil M. Cioran
    “I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
    Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

  • #14
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #15
    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    Irina Dunn

  • #16
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #17
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #18
    Alexander Pushkin
    “Văzând în fapta lui jignire, Boierii şi-au ieşit din fire: „Vecinu-i fire prost crescută, Un farmazon, un om năuc: Bea roşul vin ca un haiduc, La doamne mâna nu sărută, Doar da şi nu, nicicând poftim” - îl osândiră unanim.
    În satul său, pe-aceeaşi vreme Un alt boier sosi-n vecini, Stârnind aidoma dileme La moşierii cei meschini. Vladimir Lenski se numeşte, Direct din Gottirsgen soseşte: Frumos şi tânăr şi poet, Lui Kant discipol, interpret, El din Germania ceţoasă Aduse roadele ştiinţei — S-aline greul suferinţei; Fiinţă-aprinsă, curioasă, Cu negrul păr adus pe spate Vorbea cu foc de libertate. Adică francmason, aici în sens de liber-cugetător. Ferit de tina infamiei, Cu sufletul cuprins de-ardoare, Credea-n căldura prieteniei Şi-n duioşie de fecioare. În inima-i ce ignoranţă! — Nutrea statornic o speranţă. Şi-a lumii larmă, strălucire îi răscoleau tânăra-i fire, împodobind ideea-n haină De reverii şi dulce vis; Scruta cu sufletul deschis în viaţă-un scop, în lume-o taină Ce-i frământa adânca minte, …Visând minuni, ţintind nainte! Credea el că un suflet mare Se va uni cu el, odată, Că chipul gingaşei fecioare L-aşteaptă undeva curată; Sau că amicii-s plini de zel Să poarte lanţuri pentru el, Să sfarme-n ţăndări braţul lor Ulciorul clevetirilor; Că-n viaţă sunt aleşi ai sorţii, Prieteni sfinţi ai omenirii, Ce hărăziţi sunt nemuririi, Cu veşnica văpaie-a torţii Şi cu raza ei de înnoire S-aducă-n lume fericire. Revolta şi compătimirea, iubirea binelui avea Şi-a slavei dulce pătimire De june-n sânge-i clocotea. El lira şi-o plimba cu sete Sub cerul lui Schiller şi Goethe Şi sufletu-i vibra patetic, Aprins de jarul lor poetic. Şi-a muzelor înaltă artă N-a ruşinat-o el nicicând. Şi nimeni de semeţu-i gând N-a fost în stare să-l despartă, De dorul sfânt al tinereţii Şi gingăşia simplităţii.”
    Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

  • #19
    Hermann Hesse
    “I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #20
    Claudiu Soare
    “Cititorul este un bolnav căruia trebuie să i se inventeze isteria. Orice poveste întinsă pe trei sute de pagini trebuie să îl confirme, iată boala de care suferă adultul urban.”
    Claudiu Soare, Extaz: jurnal ingrat

  • #21
    Adrienne Rich
    “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

    Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #22
    Adrienne Rich
    “[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”
    Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

  • #23
    Jacques Cazotte
    “Man was made of a little mud and water. Could not a woman be made of dew, earthen mists and beams of light, condensed remnants of a rainbow?”
    Jacques Cazotte, The Devil in Love

  • #24
    Michel Onfray
    “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
    Michel Onfray

  • #25
    bell hooks
    “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
    bell hooks

  • #26
    Hélène Cixous
    “We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.”
    Hélène Cixous

  • #27
    Hélène Cixous
    “I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a fortune. And I, too, said nothing, showed nothing; I didn't open my mouth, I didn't repaint my half of the world. I was ashamed. I was afraid, and I swallowed my shame and my fear. I said to myself: You are mad! What's the meaning of these waves, these floods, these outbursts? Where is the ebullient infinite woman who...hasn't been ashamed of her strength? Who, surprised and horrified by the fantastic tumult of her drives (for she was made to believe that a well-adjusted normal woman has a ...divine composure), hasn't accused herself of being a monster? Who, feeling a funny desire stirring inside her (to sing, to write, to dare to speak, in short, to bring out something new), hasn't thought that she was sick? Well, her shameful sickness is that she resists death, that she makes trouble.”
    Hélène Cixous

  • #28
    Hélène Cixous
    “If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.”
    Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman

  • #29
    Hélène Cixous
    “Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.”
    Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

  • #30
    Hélène Cixous
    “Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.”
    Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts



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