Sherihan Gamal
If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree. — Sherihan Gamal
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Kazuo Ishiguro
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. ― Kazuo Ishiguro
John Keats
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats. (Oxford University Press, July 15, 1970) Originally published January 1st 1954.
Eliot Weinberger
What is WIND and what is BONE have never been conclusively determined by the generations of Chinese critics, but what is certain, according to Liu Hsieh, is that the perfect combination or balance of WIND and BONE, the metaphor for the ideal poem, is a bird. — Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing. (New Directions; 1St… Continue reading Eliot Weinberger
Gabriel García Márquez
“Don’t worry,” he would say, smiling. “Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.” — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Harper & Row, 1970)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love you, and loving you I torment you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 12th edition June 14, 2002) Originally published November 1880.
Emil Cioran
The mission of every human being is to fulfill the lie he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhausted illusion. — Emil Cioran, Anathemas And Admirations. (Arcade Publishing, September 15, 1998)
