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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #2
    Thomas Mann
    “He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #3
    Hermann Hesse
    “Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
    Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
    tags: love

  • #4
    Joey Comeau
    “I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.”
    Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography

  • #5
    Hermann Hesse
    “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #6
    Hanif Kureishi
    “Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”
    Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

  • #7
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #8
    Thomas Mann
    “No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
    Thomas Mann

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
    "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
    "Yes. I want to ruin you."
    "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #10
    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #11
    Hermann Hesse
    “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
    Herman Hesse

  • #12
    Hermann Hesse
    “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #13
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #14
    Hermann Hesse
    “Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #15
    Hermann Hesse
    “I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
    Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #16
    Hermann Hesse
    “One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: home

  • #17
    Hermann Hesse
    “You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
    Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #18
    Hermann Hesse
    “The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”
    Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

  • #19
    Hanif Kureishi
    “The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”
    Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

  • #20
    Hanif Kureishi
    “Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”
    Hanif Kureishi, Collected Stories

  • #21
    Hanif Kureishi
    “Security and safety were the reward of dullness.”
    Hanif Kureishi

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #26
    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #27
    Doris Lessing
    “It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #28
    Adolfo Bioy Casares
    “And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.”
    Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

  • #29
    Adolfo Bioy Casares
    “The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.”
    Adolfo Bioy Casares

  • #30
    Adolfo Bioy Casares
    “La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir.”
    Adolfo Bioy Casares



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