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

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
― Niels Bohr

“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”
― Niels Bohr

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“A mi la literatura m'ha canviat, m'ha donat una profunditat de consciència que no tenia. M'ha ajudat a veure el món d'un altra manera, m'ha fet més gran el cor. I aquesta passió la sento i la veig en altres persones, inclosos els joves. Les grans obres literàries ens mostren la vida en tota la seva complexitat. La literatura ens ajuda a comprendre les vides dels altres. El tret essencial de la literatura és que ens fa imaginar què significa ser un ésser humà diferent de nosaltres. Si només fos per això la literatura ja tindria un lloc justificat al món, però ens dona més, ens transporta a l'ànima del llenguatge.”
― Tobias Wolff

“Es ben significatiu que, fins i tot força més endavant, en un context llatí, la paraula oci (otium) sigui la no marcada, mentre que la paraula «negoci» es construeixi per negació de la primera (nec-otium). El que és normal, l'opció neutra i preferent, és disposar de lleure, de vacança, de temps lliure per poder viure amb plenitud, destinant aquest temps a la contemplació filosòfica o a la divina (el vacare deo medieval: 'dedicar-se a déu'). La negació d'aquest temps de qualitat, el neg-oci, ens allunya de la vida humana plena i ens apropa a la vida instintiva, mancada de sentit des d'un punt de vista humà, a la vida dels animals que, com les abelles, s'afanyen i s'afanyen en la feina sense cap consciència de la finitud de la pròpia existència.”
― Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà, L’avarícia

“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“Everything is practice. Every word you write and action you take is a chance to get better.”
― Jeff Goins, You Are A Writer

“No es solo que las empresas de redes sociales vendan nuestros datos personales a terceros para ganar dinero con nosotros, no es solo que se haya abandonado la comunicación cara a cara en favor de la tarea más propia de Sísifo de actualizar el timeline de Facebook, sino que todas las relaciones humanas se han reconfigurado según la normalidad de las compras. Los amantes se han convertido en productos desechables, los amigos de Facebook se descartan cuando no satisfacen al cliente, los conflictos personales se evitan en favor de unas reseñas anónimas más tóxicas que las que daríamos a una aspiradora que funciona mal. Bauman señala que las aptitudes sociales declinan cuando tratamos a «otros seres humanos como objetos de consumo y los juzgamos, por el patrón de los objetos de consumo, según el nivel de placer que nos garantizan [...]. En el mejor de los casos, los otros son nuestros compañeros en la actividad esencialmente solitaria del consumo».”
― Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

“It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March

“Am I sure that there is no mind behind our existence and no mystery anywhere in the universe? I think I am. What joy, what relief there would be, if we could declare so with complete conviction. If that were so I could wish to live for ever. How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own rituals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March