Antoine de Saint-Exupéry // "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
John Fowles // "Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all, our relationship to nothingness. To death."
Juliette Binoche // "The only way for me to stay young is to let go of youth...youth is within yourself. How do you renew yourself, how do you go to a new layer of yourself? That is the real youth...the renewance of yourself."
Yayoi Kusama // "In this universe, the moon, the sun, each and every star, my own life, your life, they are all a single polka dot among billions."
Audrey Hepburn // "I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
Jean Cocteau // "There is no such thing as love; only proof of love."
Arundhati Roy // "Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness...and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling...their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
Chuck Palahniuk // "The unreal is more powerful than the real...it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create."
George Orwell // "In a time of universal deceit...telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Audrey Hepburn // "People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anyone."
Fyodor Dostoevsky // "Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
Pablo Picasso // "It took me a lifetime."