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“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“And I believe all men think of me as a person. Correction: not all men. And I believe all men care about consent. Correction: not all men.”
― Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Cesar A. Cruz

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But if you are alive—live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“The young need discipline and a full bookcase.”
― Vivienne Westwood

“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” – Juvenal, a poet in Ancient Rome.”
― Jeff Berwick, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.

'Where do bad Americans go?'

'They stay in America'.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.”
― Lauren Eden, Lioness Awakens

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“And now that I am older, I don’t give a damn about sin. I will be the first to cast one.”
― Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed

“i don't wanna be with anybody
who weaponizes my vulnerability
saves it in a wooden box
loads it in a shotgun
when I least expect it”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

“You my opposer when I want FREEDOM, you my
opposer when I want JUSTICE, you my opposer
when I want EQUALITY, you won't even stand up
for me in AMERICA for my religious beliefs, you
want me to go somewhere & fight, and you won't
even stand up for me at home. If I'm gonna die, I'll
die right here fighting you. I don't care, put me in
jail”
― Muhammad Ali

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche