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  • #1
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #2
    Wisława Szymborska
    “When I pronounce the word Future,
    the first syllable already belongs to the past.

    When I pronounce the word Silence,
    I destroy it.”
    Wisława Szymborska, Poems New And Collected

  • #3
    Wisława Szymborska
    “The joy of writing.
    The power of preserving.
    Revenge of a mortal hand.”
    Wisława Szymborska

  • #4
    Wisława Szymborska
    “True love. Is it normal
    is it serious, is it practical?
    What does the world get from two people
    who exist in a world of their own?”
    Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

  • #5
    Henrik Ibsen
    “It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
    Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

  • #6
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #7
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #9
    Stanisław Lem
    “We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.”
    Stanisław Lem, Solaris

  • #10
    Arundhati Roy
    “Nietzsche believed that if Pity were to become the core of ethics, misery would become contagious and happiness an object of suspicion”
    Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “You are a slow learner, Winston."
    "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
    "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”
    George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
    George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”
    George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

  • #16
    George Orwell
    “It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
    George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

  • #17
    Dorothy Scarborough
    “Samuel Butler suggests that machines will be the real rulers in the coming ages, that man will be preserved only to feed and care for the machines”
    Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

  • #18
    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #19
    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #20
    Gertrude Stein
    “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
    Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
    tags: life

  • #21
    Gertrude Stein
    “Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #22
    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #23
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
    L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

  • #24
    L.M. Montgomery
    “You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Road to Yesterday

  • #25
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #26
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #28
    Stanisław Lem
    “But what am I going to see?

    I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.”
    Stanislaw Lem, Solaris

  • #29
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

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