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  • #1
    Richard P. Feynman
    “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
    Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

  • #2
    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #3
    Richard P. Feynman
    “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
    Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #5
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    John Lennon

  • #6
    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #13
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #14
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #15
    Dan    Brown
    “Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”
    Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “Style is the answer to everything.
    A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
    To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
    To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art

    Bullfighting can be an art
    Boxing can be an art
    Loving can be an art
    Opening a can of sardines can be an art

    Not many have style
    Not many can keep style
    I have seen dogs with more style than men,
    although not many dogs have style.
    Cats have it with abundance.

    When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
    that was style.
    Or sometimes people give you style
    Joan of Arc had style
    John the Baptist
    Jesus
    Socrates
    Caesar
    García Lorca.

    I have met men in jail with style.
    I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
    Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
    Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
    or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #21
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #25
    Agha Shahid Ali
    “The man who buries his house in the sand and digs it up again, each evening, learns to put it together quickly and just as quickly to take it apart. My parents sleep like children in the dark. I am too far to hear them breathe”
    Agha Shahid Ali, The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

  • #26
    Molière
    “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
    Moliere

  • #27
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.”
    Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection

  • #28
    Benjamín Labatut
    “Ehrenfest sought relentlessly what he called der springende Punkt, the leaping point, the heart of the matter, as for him deriving a result by logical means was never enough: “That is like dancing on one leg,” he would say, “when the essence lies in recognizing connections, meanings and associations in every direction.” For Ehrenfest, true understanding was a full-body experience, something that involved your entire being, not just your mind or reason.”
    Benjamín Labatut, The MANIAC

  • #29
    Benjamín Labatut
    “Lost faith is worse than no faith at all, because it leaves behind a gaping hole, much like the hollow that the Spirit left when it abandoned this accursed world. But by their very nature, those god-shaped voids demand to be filled with something as precious as that which was lost. The choice of that something—if indeed it is a choice at all—rules the destiny of men.”
    Benjamín Labatut, The MANIAC

  • #30
    Benjamín Labatut
    “You don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in, you know?”
    Benjamín Labatut, The MANIAC



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