Quotes - Mariano Crimi (mariano_c) Showing 1-24 of 24

#1

“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”
― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

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#2

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#3

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#4

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#5

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreaming, dreams

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#6

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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#7

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: writing

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#8

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#9

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#10

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#11

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy”
― Henry Miller

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#12

“I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.”
― Henry Miller

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#13

“Silence is so accurate.”
― Mark Rothko

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#14

“My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.”
― Sam Pink, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It

tags: self-loathing

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#15

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: good-and-bad

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#16

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: tools

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#17

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
― Boris Vian

tags: jazz, love, music, new-orleans

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#18

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

tags: life, nothing

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#19

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

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#20