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Photo of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski // "Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again...to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside...and it will be easy enough to fail...but don't, don't, don't. Just watch them. Listen to them. Do you want to be like that? A faceless, mindless, heartless being? Do you want to experience death before death? Nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. It's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Think about it. Think about saving yourself."

Photo of Anne Frank

Anne Frank // "How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day."

Photo of Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky // "We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency."

Photo of James Joyce

James Joyce // "Absence, the highest form of presence."

Photo of Zadie Smith

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."

Photo of Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini // "If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something."

Photo of Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld // "I'm very much down to earth, just not this earth."

Photo of Henry Miller

Henry Miller // "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

Photo of Leonardo DiCaprio

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?'"

Photo of Philippe Petit

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?"

Photo of Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo // "Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light."