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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #2
    Tove Jansson
    “I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
    Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01

  • #3
    Tove Jansson
    “One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
    I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
    I asked her why she was out so early and
    she answered that there were too many books and
    far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
    Tove Jansson

  • #4
    Tove Jansson
    “You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
    Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

  • #5
    Tove Jansson
    “Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.”
    Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November

  • #6
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #7
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #8
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #9
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
    "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #12
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”
    chuck palahniuk

  • #13
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #14
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

  • #15
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

  • #18
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #19
    Leon Trotsky
    “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
    Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

  • #20
    Leon Trotsky
    “Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
    Leon Trotsky

  • #21
    Leon Trotsky
    “In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”
    Leon Trotsky

  • #22
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #23
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    Albert Camus

  • #26
    Jay Asher
    “A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #27
    Jodi Picoult
    “and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #28
    Dorothy Parker
    Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    Nietzsche

  • #30
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted



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