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“Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let's absurdify life, from east to west.
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
― Raymond Carver

“Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Devant cette nuit chargée de signes et d’étoiles, je m’ouvrais pour la première fois à la tendre indifférence du monde. De l’éprouver si pareil à moi, si fraternel enfin, j’ai senti que j’avais été heureux, et que je l’étais encore. Pour que tout soit consommé, pour que je me sente moins seul, il me restait à souhaiter qu’il y ait beaucoup de spectateurs le jour de mon exécution et qu’ils m’accueillent avec des cris de haine”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“le mal qui est dans le monde vient presque toujours de l'ignorance”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“J'ai souvent pensé alors que si l'on m'avait fait vivre dans un tronc d'arbre sec, sans autre occupaion que de regarder la fleur du ciel au-dessus de ma tête, je m'y serais peu à peu habitué. J'aurais attendu des passages d'oiseaux ou de rencontres de nuages comme j'attendais ici les curieuses cravates de mon avocat et comme, dans un autre monde, je patientais jusqu'au samedi pour étreindre le corps de Marie.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Je ne sais plus si je vis ou si je me souviens.”
― Albert Camus

“Я вошел сюда с мукой в сердце…”
― Федор Достоевский, Идиот

“Мне двадцать седьмой год, а ведь я знаю, что я как ребенок. Я не имею права выражать мою мысль, я это давно говорил; я только в Москве, с Рогожиным, говорил откровенно… Мы с ним Пушкина читали, всего прочли; он ничего не знал, даже имени Пушкина… Я всегда боюсь моим смешным видом скопрометировать мысль и главную идею. Я не имею жеста. Я имею жест всегда противоположный, а это вызывает смех и унижает идею. Чувства меры тоже нет, а это главное… Я знаю, что мне лучше сидеть и молчать. Когда я упрусь и замолчу, то даже очень благоразумным кажусь, и к тому же обдумываю”
― Федор Достоевский, Идиот

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Nunca amamos a nadie: amamos, sólo, la idea que tenemos de alguien. Lo que amamos es un concepto nuestro, es decir, a nosotros mismos.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Tabacaria e Outros Poemas

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it”
― Charles Bukowski, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

“There is no hurry. Time means nothing
to you.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

“It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Once I began a book, I couldn’t put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I’d keep the book hidden so I could read during class. But I had almost no desire to talk with anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly”
― Oscar Wilde