James Joyce // "Absence, the highest form of presence."
Zadie Smith // "The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out."
Federico Fellini // "If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something."
Karl Lagerfeld // "I'm very much down to earth, just not this earth."
Henry Miller // "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
Leonardo DiCaprio // "When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'"
Philippe Petit // "Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream."
Salvador Dali // "Where is the real? All appearance are deceitful, the visible surface is deceptive. I look at my hand...it is nerves, muscles, bones. Let us go deeper: it is molecules and acids. Further still: it is an impalpable waltz of electrons and neutrons. Further still: an immaterial nebula. Who can prove that my hand exists?"
Frida Kahlo // "Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light."
Janis Joplin // "I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit."
Hayao Miyazaki // "I've become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live—if I'm able to, then perhaps I'll be closer to portraying a true expression of love."
E.E. Cummings // "Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself...in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else...means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."