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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”
    William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #5
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #6
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

  • #7
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #8
    Immanuel Kant
    “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
    Immanuel Kant

  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    Nietzsche

  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
    how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #14
    Luo Guanzhong
    “Truly, flowers open, only to be blown down by the wind.”
    Luo Guanzhong, The Outlaws of the Marsh

  • #15
    Herodotus
    “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
    Herodotus, The Histories

  • #16
    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #17
    Jack London
    “The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
    Jack London, White Fang

  • #18
    Jack London
    “I would rather be ashes than dust!
    I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
    I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    The function of man is to live, not to exist.
    I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
    I shall use my time.”
    Jack London

  • #19
    Charles Dickens
    “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #20
    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #21
    Yukio Mishima
    “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
    Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

  • #22
    Yukio Mishima
    “Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.”
    Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet

  • #23
    Yukio Mishima
    “Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
    Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

  • #24
    Yukio Mishima
    “I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...”
    Yukio Mishima

  • #25
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #26
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #27
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

  • #28
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #29
    Marcel Proust
    “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
    Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

  • #30
    Gautama Buddha
    “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

    [Verse 223]”
    Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada



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