“I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.”
— Emil Cioran
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks (via books-n-quotes)
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
— William Saroyan, My Heart’s in the Highlands (via books-n-quotes)
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
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“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via books-n-quotes)
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”
— Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer (via books-n-quotes)
“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via books-n-quotes)