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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“her voice was amazing, like a 6B pencil”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Hell isn't a fire pit but a museum of regrets.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
― Mark Twain

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

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

“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
― Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
― Emma Goldman

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

“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
― Max Stirner

“Life must go on; I forget just why.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain