“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine.”
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.” ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,” she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. “What nice dreams they must have!” ― L M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." —Vincent Van Gogh
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." — Nelson Mandela