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“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”

Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies… I'm gonna play and dance and sing.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.”

George Orwell book 1984

“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”

Saul Bellow book Seize the Day

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.”

Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

“the more I live, the more I regret how little i know”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“To be or not to be, that is the question.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

“Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Dear Jesus… how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul