

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha

“What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
― Hot Water Music
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
― Hot Water Music

“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.”
― Runaway Horses
― Runaway Horses
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