“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” – Friedrich Schiller
“The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.” – Baltasar Gracian
“Conquer yourself rather than the world.” – Rene Descartes
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.” – Seneca
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.” – Ludwig Feuerbach
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” – Voltaire
“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.” – Immanuel Kant
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.” – Karl Marx
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” – John Locke
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Where can we live but days?” - Philip Larkin, Days
The novel comes as an emergency, with/ lights blazing and sirens blaring. – Gaustine, Emergency Novel: Brief Theory and Practice
“All real persons in this novel are fictional, only fictional are real.” – Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
Stanislaw Lem: Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.