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“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

“When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cultural orientation and that of the historical moment to which one belongs.”
― Mircea Eliade, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn’t recognize it’s all in fun, or all of the above.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.”
― Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978

“When you forgive it means you are ready to walk away from the fight.”
― Tracy A Malone

“The greatest gift we give ourselves is to give up the need for vindication. Trust in karma, move on and learn to let go.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Everything happens because there was a lesson you needed to learn. Move on from the messenger they were not the lesson. Find the lesson and you will never repeat it again.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Always remember who you were before knowing a narcissist. If you don't know who you were, invent who you want to be.”
― Tracy A Malone

“Yaşlanmak, geçmişten artık korku duymuyor olmaktan başka bir şey değil zaten.”
― Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından 24 Saat ve Bir Yüreğin Ölümü

“İnsanları genel anlamda seviyorum ama kimseye tahammülüm yok.”
― Oğuz Atay, Tutunamayanlar

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
― Mark Twain

“Les vies gays sont souvent des vies différées ; elles commencent lorsqu'un individu se réinvente lui-même, en sortant de son silence, de sa clandestinité honteuse, ou en tout cas en s'aménageant des espaces où il lui est possible d'être ce qu'il est et veut être. Lorsqu'il choisit au lieu de subir, et par exemple, lorsqu'il se compose une autre famille - constituée de ses amis, de ses amants, de ses anciens amants devenus ses amis et des amis de ses anciens amants - et reconstruit ainsi son identité après avoir quitté le champ clos et étouffant de sa famille d'origine et de ses injonctions tacites ou explicites à l'hétérosexualité. Une telle fuite ne signifie pas nécessairement, cela va de soi, la rupture totale avec sa famille, mais plutôt la nécessité de s'en tenir éloigné et de la tenir à distance. Avant cela, les vies gays ne sont que des vies vécues par procuration, des vies imaginées, ou des vies attendues, espérées autant que redoutées. (p. 46)”
― Didier Eribon, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred