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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “А в самом деле: вот я теперь уж от себя задаю один праздный вопрос: что лучше � дешёвое ли счастие или возвышенные страдания? Ну-ка, что лучше?”
    Федор Достоевский, Записки из подполья

  • #2
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #3
    John Steinbeck
    “If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #4
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    George Orwell

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #14
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #17
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #18
    Rudyard Kipling
    “All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #19
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #20
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #21
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #22
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.”
    Robert M. Pirsig

  • #23
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
    Robert M. Pirsig

  • #24
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #25
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #26
    James Clavell
    “Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!”
    James Clavell, King Rat

  • #27
    James Clavell
    “Очите им се срещнаха и едно обещание бе дадено, прието и върнато.”
    James Clavell, King Rat

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “I hope that death contains
    less than this.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #29
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

  • #30
    Anne Frank
    “Because paper has more patience than people. ”
    Anne Frank



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