Quote Of The Day

 Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Fight Club (1999)

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"I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived"

Karen Maitland - Company of Liars

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"The seventh day, God delivered men to the animals of earth so that these animals devour them. Then, having imprisoned Satan in the depths, he turned away from his creation and Satan remained alone to torment them" 

Patrick Graham - The Gospel according to Satan 

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"I can see in you the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage, a vivid, restless, captive. Were it but free, it would soar, cloud hight"

Jane Eyre - The movie

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"With a feeling of deep but most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many years ago, my soul, from our first meeting, burned with fires it had never known—but the fires were not of Eros—and bitter and tormenting to my eager spirit was the gradual conviction that I could in no manner define their unusual meaning, or regulate their vague intensity. Yet we met: and Fate bound us together at the altar: and I never spoke of love, or thought of passion. She, however, shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone, rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder. It is a happiness to dream".

Edgar Allan Poe - Morella (1835) 

Photo: George Frederic Watts

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"Age is not measured by the years that went by but by the things you achieved during these years"

Hydra 

Photo: Malgorzata Sadowska Majewska - Violin Player 

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" And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of Perverseness. Of this spirit philosophy takes no account. Phrenology finds no place for it among its organs. Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart—one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"  

The Black Cat - Edgar allan Poe (1843)

Illustration: Aubrey Beardsley - Black Cat

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O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!

O memory that engraved the things I saw,

Here shall your worth be manifest to all!

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Photo: Edmond Aman-Jean (Hesiod listening to the muse) 

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) 

Photo: Loganart

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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit".

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Photo: Loganart

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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens" 

Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
 

Photo: Alessandro Rizzolli

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"Faith makes all things possible, love makes all things easy"

Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

Photo: Bernardo Alatorre, Lady Praying. 

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"Do not grieve, indeed God is with us" 

Holy Quran [9:40]

Photo: Hydra Artwork 

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough"

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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"The artist, the true artist, the true poet, should paint according to what he sees and feels only. He should really be faithful to his own nature"  

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Photo: Lord Frederick Leighton - The Painter's Honeymoon 

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"

Maya Angelou (1928- ) 

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"...there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing for ever everything that is familiar".

Paulo Coelho  

Photo: Caspar David Friedrich  

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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great"

Roger De Rabutin (1618-1693) 

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"The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time" 

From the movie Finding Forrester 

Photo: Vichy Rabbitka.

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 "It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of".

Willa Cather (1873-1947)