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“Palm trees are all right only in mirages.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Only experts, for experts, should probe a mind's misery.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays

“The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order...is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good.”
― Norman Rush, Mating

“What a datum! I couldn't help thinking over and over.”
― Norman Rush, Mating

“It's always time to question what has become standard and established.”
― David Bowie

“Still, more than all the implausible fluff, it was the advertisements-neat, clean, set off in a box in the middle of some mendacious tale-that were ductile for dreaming. However much it smacked of that hyperbole necessary for sales purposes, he nonetheless remained astounded and tickled by the imperturbable guarantee in the announcement of a product that existed, that could be bought, a product which was not, in sum, the figment of a journalist's imagination, a ruse invented for the sake of a byline.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Dilemma

“And then he experienced an inexplicable confusion of thoughts, like a rosary of ideas comprised of diverse and ingenious beads that had unraveled and was now rattling around in his brain with no thread linking them, no coherence.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, EN RADE

“Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“Remorse is perhaps the condiment which keeps passion from being too unappetizing to the blasé.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
― Nietzsche

“Our time, however much it talks of economy, is a squanderer: it squanders what is most precious, the spirit.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of "duty"? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Revaluation of all values!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche