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“Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.”
“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”
“One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.”
“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
“I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.”
“Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself.”
“Seize the day, then let it go.”
“Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.”
“Time does not pass, it continues”
“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.”
“To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.”
“Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything.”
“The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.”
“It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.”
“When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.”
“The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.”
“Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.”
“Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.”
“Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.”
“Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.”
“What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?”
“Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.”
“You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.”
“Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.”
“We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.”
“There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.”
“Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence
“Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.”
“The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.”
“In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.”
“The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.”
“Words of the hero: "I am my fate.”
“Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.”
“You don't know how to live. You live.”
“Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.”
“Every side attacks you when you don't take sides.”
“The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.”
“A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.”
“A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.”
“Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing”
“If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.”
“Love hurts because we think that's what love is.”
“Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
“Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold”
“Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.”
“Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.”
“When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.”
“Forget everything you've done. Start over.”
“Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.”
“A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.”
“To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.”
“Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game.”
“Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love.”
“We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.”
“What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.”
“The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.”
“Thirst is a language even the grass understands.”
“Progress is discovering what you can do without.”
“Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.”
“Every face is born with a thousand masks to go with it.”
“Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.”
“The love of life begins with the love of one person.”
“If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.”
“Philosophers console themselves with explanations.”
“When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.”
“I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.”
“When people have given up on happiness they call themselves "realists.”
“If one bite fills you, you don't need two.”
“We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.”
“It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.”
“How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.”
“We love those to whom we can tell our story.”
“Art is a picture of the spirit.”
“Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.”
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
“Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.”
“Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.”
“The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.”
“The real love is the one that makes you forget all the others.”
“A light heart can carry the most weight.”
“An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.”
“Every morning a new sun greets us and our new life begins.”
“How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.”
“Only kind people seem really human.
“The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them.”
“What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.”
“A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.”
“Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.”
“In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.”
“Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.”
“We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say.”
“People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.”
“Love doesn't excuse our faults: it makes them insignificant.”
“If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.”
“What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.”
“The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.”
“cynicism springs from disappointments in love.”
“Human nature is water, not stone.”
“The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.”
“To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.”
“Water flows because it's willing.”
“All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.”
“A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing.”
“Order is what exists before you start arranging things.”
“We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.”
“A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.”
“I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.”
“I admire the fog, how it fades into itself.”
“I have no heroes except flowers and children.”
“Only the blank page needs no editing.”
“Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.”
“Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.”
“Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.”
“The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.”
“If you can abuse your power you have too much.”
“Even blind alleys lead somewhere.”
“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.”
“The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.”
“Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.”
“We waste this life dreaming of another.”
“Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.”
“Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.”
“If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.”
“The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.”
“All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.”
“The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.”
“From one dog all the dogs bark.”
“The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.”
“Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air.”
“Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.”
“When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.”
“Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.”
“Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.”
“The sun is my wine.”
“Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.”
“After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.”
“What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.”
“We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile”
“Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.”
“My calm is like the tides: never at rest.”
“The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile”
“Self-contradiction is the most fruitful kind of contradiction.”
“Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.”
“Absence casts the longest shadow.”
“The hammer never complains of the noise.”
“The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.”
“Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.”
“First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.”
“When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.”
“No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.”
“What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.”
“All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.”
“In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.”
“Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.”
“In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.”
“Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.”
“Never have a plan; it'll just get in your way.”
“Dreams were the first movies.”
“Love is the body's warmth; sex, its heat.”
“A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.”
“My life is my book, but I can't read it.”
“What doesn't kill us makes a good story.”
“With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.”
“Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut.”
“Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.”
“Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.”
“A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.”
“The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?”
“It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.”
“One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.”
“Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.”
“To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.”
“The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.”
“The direction a cloud moves is always approved of by the wind.”
“Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.”
“A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.”
“Everyone dies young.”
“Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.”
“You can't know people, only their names.”
“I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.”
“Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.”
“Peace is the first condition of joy.”
“Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship.”
“Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.”
“In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.”
“The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.”
“A new theory doesn't change the way things actually happen.”
“The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.”
“Truth is an outlaw in every country.”
“How wonderful life is! How sad to squander it in bitterness, self-loathing and hate!”
“The wise oyster stays in its shell.”
“A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”
“How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small.”
“To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory.”
“More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.”
“Grace rides inside the waves.”
“Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.”
“My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.”
“The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.”
“I never met a dog lover I didn't like.”
“In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay.”
“No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.”
“Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty.”
“Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.”
“Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.”
“Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.”
“Books end. Stories never do.”
“You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.”
“Ruins are the cathedrals of Time.”
“When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.”
“Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.”
“When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.”
“Be a poet in action as well as in words.”
“Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking.”
“It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.”
“Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.”
“Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.”
“Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.”
“Art always springs from a surplus of life”
“Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.”
“What is deeply felt is never lost.”
“More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea.”
“Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be.”
“The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.”
“No one tells the truth about indifference. Indifference is the next best thing to love.”
“A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.”
“Death kills us once; worry kills us every day.”
“Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.”
“Trying to be more than human one becomes less.”
“Even the poor are rich in prejudices.”
“What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.”
“If you're in the fault-finding business you'll find me full of faults.”
“To know oneself means above all to know what one likes”
“How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?”
“Self-sacrifice is something other people always have to pay for.”
“What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?”
“We are the mountains we must cross.”
“Walk slowly through the world and pay attention”
“Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.”
“To be saved is to believe in one's own courage.”
“You can always count on God to do nothing.”
“The unsaid rules every conversation.”
“Accidents are built into the road.”
“One explains things until things have no meaning anymore.”
“Our talents don't define us any more than our faults.”
“You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.”
“No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.”
“Death-the thing we'd all like to forget. We've built an entire civilization to forget it.”
“The aphorist writes in the gap between poetry and philosophy.”
“You can teach people everything except how to get along.”
“I'd trade a million glib talkers for one person who's relaxing and easy to get along with
“We're the slaves of our bodies, but we don't have to be the slaves of our minds.”
“Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.”
“Those who lack experience always have a lot of ideas.”
“Mutual helplessness is the essential relation between parent and child.”
“Logic can't explain the salmon swimming upstream. So it denies the existence of salmon.”
“From the body, pleasure; from the body, pain. From the body, life; from the body, death.”
“It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.”
“Get rid of all that societal and cultural baggage. The true self is no one.”
“To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.”
“When love becomes a perfect fire it leaves only ashes.”
“We shouldn't judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should just leave them the hell alone.”
“Sex isn't always fulfilling, but it is never gratuitous.”
“I think we're happiest when we're not thinking and just doing things.”
“The poem defies gravity.”
“Better to accept the worst about people than to try to change them.”
“I'd be a teacher if there was something to teach. I'd be a student if there was something to learn.”
“I'm sick of words. I only want to hear music now.”
“When a woman rises to declare her independence, the whole mechanism of society conspires to push her down again.”
“Teach children what they would learn, not what you would teach them.”
“I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.”
“Life is without precedent.”
“The fox loves to hide. But when his prey hides, he calls it cowardice.”
“Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost.”
“Life's an old story. We all know how it ends.”
“If you have the experience why do you need the words?”
“The free spirit is a wild child, always at war with convention.”
“All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice.”
“You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free.”
“Live for nothing but the joy of being alive.”
“We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.”
“It is better to feel pity than to learn how not to feel it.”
“All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.”
“Lessons are learned, not taught.”
“A free woman is the freeest thing on earth.”
“If you have the feeling, you can dispense with the words.”
“One reads to leave home, to go on a journey.”
“Few pleasures can equal that of setting off into the unknown.”
“I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.”
“I'm not only lazy myself, but I inspire laziness in others.”
“Diseases aren't cured by giving them a name.”
“Cynicism is like a cancer of the spirit.”
“We owe death our last breath but not one breath more.”
“A free-spirited woman is the freest thing on earth.”
“The well of secrets has no bottom.”
“Whatever we do to shame or degrade others, we do to ourselves.”
“There is a madness that is joy and a madness that is just madness.”
“By attacking the life choices of others we only reveal our own fears and prejudices.”
“Life itself is the lesson.”
“The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.”
“When men set out to create order, they create only misery.”
“One should live as if living were all that mattered.”
“Be a simple nothing and an ordinary nobody because that's the greatest thing you can be.”
“Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.”
“The grief you hide leaves the deepest scars.”
“I hate criticism, it makes me feel important.”
“Revenge is starting a fire you can't control.”
“The surest way to be unhappy is to depend on someone else to make you happy.”
“Words could never satisfy me, but life satisfies me.”
“Art is good, but happiness is better.”
“Use ideas, don't let them use you.”
“Learning how to be at peace with oneself and others. That would be a real education.”
“What I dread most: having opinions.”
“What is beauty but nakedness unashamed of itself?”
“Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.”
“Happiness is the highest form of self-respect.”
“One runs the risk, whenever one opens one eyes, of not liking what one sees.”
“Writing exacerbates a wound.”
“We are all nameless inside.”
“Do this or that: whatever you wish.”
“The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.”
“My religion is life, my philosophy happiness, my politics friendship.”
“On days I'm too lazy to rake the leaves the wind does it for me.”
“Never unite in a cause, only in love.”
“Thunder makes a loud noise but it's the quiet sky that lasts.”
“We're the slaves of our bodies. We don't have to be the slaves of our minds.”
“Freedom is what you do; circumstance is what happens to you.”
“All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.”
“Looking up at the sky was the best idea I had all day.”
“Be unprepared, that's my motto. Let life surprise you.”
“If someone offers you 'tough love', run screaming for the door.”
“Don't even thinking of loving someone if you're not prepared to love them forever.”
“Marriage vows are not made to be broken but they will be broken.”
“Of all the so-called sexual perversions, joyless sex is the most perverse.”
“Life is worth living but not worth thinking about.”
“Destiny is the name we give to the strange way our lives turn out.”
“Turns out we're stronger in reality than in our imagination. We survive hardships and losses we never thought we could.”
“All religions are crooked because they lie about reality.”
“Love. Laughter. Poetry”
“A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.”
“Better to be high on life than drunk on words.”
“No being with a sexual appetite can be a rational being.”
“Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.”
“A woman who needs romantic favors to feel loved will never feel loved.”
“Every pundit who exhorts you to "think for yourself" really wants you to think like them.”
“I love bad dreams. They remind me of the goodness of life.”
“Ease is the sign of grace in everything.”
“The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.”
“Life is sometimes sad, but it is always beautiful.”
“Destiny exists only in retrospect.”
“Don't lift a finger unless it makes you glad to be alive.”
“I wished for nothing and my wish came true.”
“The predictions of false prophets always come true.”
“True wealth: a life rich in people.”
“Music is beyond knowledge, as feeling is.”
“Cheaters deal from the bottom of the deck, and still lose.”
“A writer who rejects happiness is like an astronomer who rejects the stars.”
“It is better to do something you like than to think about what you don't like.”
“Spiritual claptrap is the real pornography. Let nothing human be considered divine.”
“We are beggars not choosers at love's feast.”
“Around a free spirit everyone feels free.”
“Confusion is a web of words.”
“I love art as art but not as a religion.”
“Money isn't everything but you'll never convince money.”
“Civilizations grow old and die right in front of our eyes.”
“When a woman endeavors to free herself, all social mechanisms conspire to keep her enslaved.”
“The present moment is always the most important.”
“The solution I always found was to go on living.”
“Nothing is so important you have to do it.”
“If you can feel it why do you need the words?”
“You can't dissect a dream without killing it.”
“Be brave. You are all on your own.”
“Freedom without happiness is like pizza without the cheese. I don't believe in it.”
“Nothing is more grotesque to me than this world of greed and drudgery humans have created.”
“Everything about sex and freedom interests me.”
“The true reward of traveling is the people you meet along the way.”
“Of what use are words that don't bring people closer together?”
“I love informality the way lovers love love.”
“Nothing can come of nothing. There is no room in my world for nothing.”
“Don't try to understand things and you won't feel confused.”
“When you're attached to something you give it an importance it doesn't have.”
“You want to be happy? Don't think!”
“It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.”
“No tomorrow is worth waiting for.”
“Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.”
“The days are for freedom and the nights for love.”
“People who are hard to please, in other words, idiots.”
“If you always think before you act you'll never get off the couch.”
“We follow a rule until we feel like breaking it.”
“Critics, in other words, idiots.”
“Trying to be more than human one becomes less.”
“When you love someone, really love them, you don't put chains on them. You want them to be free.”
“Apart from death, what else is there to grieve about?”
“The punishment for acting helpless is to find yourself at the mercy of others.”
“One needs confidence in the morning and courage at night.”
“The simplest thing is the hardest thing: not to overcomplicate one's life.”
“When you expect nothing, miracles happen.”
“Batter Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.”
“Don't look for somebody to love. Love somebody.”
“Humor is the salvation of those without hope.”
“Wisdom and contentment are the same thing.”
“Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.”
“Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.”
“After a night of bad dreams, to awaken to the sun and all the possibilities of action.”
“The moon has seen many a theory come and go.”
“Silence may be golden but it solves nothing.”
“A long leash is not freedom.”
“I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead.”
“Who do I love? I love people who are easy to talk to.”
“Politics: private interests masquerading as public concerns.”
“Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren't tolerated.”
“Man is a problem-creating animal.”
“All my life I felt so lucky to be alive i could scarcely think of anything else.”
“There is more to life than playing with words.”
“Self-concern: I have always considered my future and my fate none of my business.”
“To love is to be loving. Love is a feeling which proves itself with acts of love.”
“Rebel, and do what you will.”
“My hero is Methuseleh. He lived a thousand years.”
“The least righteous people, and therefore the least dangerous, are the skeptics.”
“Be satisfied. You don't know how lucky you are.”
“What people are looking for is someone to explain life to them. But there is no explanation and nothing to explain.”
“Where does peace come from? Passion. Where does passion come from? Peace”
“I've never been anywhere or traveled anywhere where I didn't feel at home.”
“I love talking the way Trappists love silence.”
“Greedy people only care about being greedy; clever people only care about being clever.”
“Loving souls don't need religion; they have their heaven here.”
“The woods don't mind if I strip naked.”
“Success isn't important. What's important is that one is happy and doing things one enjoys.”
“The psychiatrists have a label for everyone. I'm a manic-depressive without the depression.”
“I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are.”
“One accepts everything, but with a sigh.”
“Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth.”
“The worst thing about pain: it forces you to pay attention to it.”
“No one is more beautiful to me than a person who's easy to talk to.”
“Love means being able to confide in someone. The greater the confidence, the greater the love.”
“What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?”
“If you accept life in all its fullness and ambiguity, it's not complicated; it's only complicated, if you don't accept it.”
“If love is not the answer, what is the question?”
“We love those whom we can confide in.”
“I just do things I like. I don't think about it.”
“To have enough is perfection.”
“Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.”
“Humor is heartbreak in reverse.”
“Every nut the squirrel hoards is another it's afraid to lose.”
“Writing is a way of opening up to the world.”
“If love is the most sacred bond between two people, then betrayal must be the ultimate sacrilege.”
“The present moment is always the most important. The present moment is the only one.”
“The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy.”
“The Greeks had Hydra and Cyclops. We have Nietzsche and Pessoa: monsters of introspection and thought.”
“Where there is the will to believe it is incredible what people will believe.”
“You can never say "no, that's impossible" when it comes to human behavior or human relationships.”
“One of the oddest things about humans is how they can love or hate someone they don't even know.”
“Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.”
“The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.”
“We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all.”
“We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.”
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