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“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Planten groeien altijd naar het licht. Als alle mensen dat nu ook eens zouden doen ...”
― Hilda Spruit

“De man die in cirkels liep om anderen te behoeden voor eindes.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Het beste wat we hebben

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Ik denk: ik wil begrijpen wat de liefde is, onthouden dat dat alles is, of toch bijna. Ik wil redden wat er te redden valt, mijzelf bijvoorbeeld, ik wil weten wat ik waard ben, kiezen voor wat klopt en goed is, geloven dat dat mag. Ik denk: dat is het, ik wil durven, eindelijk. Ja.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Kom hier dat ik u kus

“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
― Paul Auster

“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
― Sophocles

“God schiep de dag, en wij sleepten ons erdoorheen”
― Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Het vervelende met gedachten is dat je ze niet kan ont-denken.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“The more crap you believe, the better off you are.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

“Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier