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“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.”
― Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

“By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.”
― Pascal Bruckner

“Станете собствения си най-добър приятел, спечелете уважението към себе си, мислете положително, осмелете се да живеете хармонично и т.н.": многобройните книги на тази тема ни карат да мислим, че това не е така лесно. Щастието заедно с пазара на духовността представлява не само най-голямата индустрия на времето, то е и съвсем определено новия морален ред: оттук започва разпространението на депресията, оттук всеки бунт срещу угнетителния хедонизъм постоянно напомня за нещастието и за отчаянието. Ето ни виновни, че не се чувстваме добре - зло, за което трябва да отговаряме пред всички останали и пред вътрешната си юрисдикция.”
― Pascal Bruckner

“Обикновеното безпокойство на човека поражда неукротима потребност от спокойствие и почивка. Откъдето произтичат множеството терапии под егидата на дзен, на будизма, на йога; откъдето злоупотребата с вземането на стимуланти и успокоителни, на витамини и на психотропни вещества. Дори и да водя най-застоялото, най-тъпото съществуване, все пак имам чувството, че ме върти някаква невероятна вихрушка, та трябва да преустановя всички работи, които търпят отлагане. Да лекуваме заетостта, родена от празнотата, с още по-голяма празнота - такъв е порочния кръг, който ни дебне. Докато имаме нужда не толкова от душевен покой в нашите безцветни съществувания, а по скоро от автентични действия, от събития, които имат тежест и смисъл, от светкавични мигове, които ни смазват, които ни възнасят.”
― Паскал Брюкнер

“Адът на нашите съвременници носи името празнота. Раят, който те търсят, е пълнотата.”
― Pascal Bruckner

“Понякога, когато съм в библиотеката, си мисля за милионите посредствени книги, за купищата натрупани познания - вече отживели или погрешни, които занапред могат да трупат едиснтвено прахоляк... Мисля си за милионите съпруги, които са принуждавали милиони деца да мълчат, за да могат мъжете да напишат тези книги (Шшт! Татко работи!), и си казвам, че в края на краищата истинската загуба на време често е била самото писане. Нямаше ли да е по-добре за всички, ако тези мъже бяха играли с децата си?”
― Nancy Huston, Journal de la création

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

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

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.”
― Patrick Swayze

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.”
― Georges Bataille

“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.”
― George Bataille

“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
― Georges Bataille

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
― Aristotle