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ITT: your favorite lit quotes

"They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the sou, a premature death." - Anton Chekhov

>> No.842431

"There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more."

Peter Altenberg

>> No.842436

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
--antonin artaud

>> No.842455

"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?"
-Andrew Ryan

>> No.842503

"OP is a faggot"

- Anon

>> No.842517

"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor."
"Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scronge up a ruler and a piece of string."
Anathem Neal Stephenson.

>> No.842544

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritatin pose I know."

>> No.842555

"Nobody dies a virgin;. In the end, life screws us all."
-Anon

>> No.842598

"So it goes." -Kurt Vonnegut

>> No.842698

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H.L. Mencken

>> No.842717

"I have more imagination in my tentacle than you do in your entire body!"
-Squidward Tentacles.

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>>842397
"Anton Chekhov you are a bro. Keep it real. P.S. I wish I wasn't too dead to read your stuff."
- Soren Kierkegaard

>> No.842731

"Why did you wake me? I was dreaming of a fine boogie tale"

>> No.842746

"To be quoted defeats the purpose of speaking, if one writes for a living"

>> No.842753

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

>> No.842760

"The Dude abides."

oh, literature?...well then:
"Certainly you shouldn't go kill somebody or rape a girl, no! But you haven't reached the point where you can understand the actual meaning of "permitted" and "forbidden." You've only sensed part of the truth...Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden — forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet."
-from Demian by Herman Hesse

>> No.842762

>>842753

Oscar Wilde has so many good ones.

>> No.842810

>>842762
Agreed:
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde