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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

― Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

― Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

― Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

― Kazuo Ishiguro

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

― Kazuo Ishiguro

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

― Kazuo Ishiguro

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

― Kazuo Ishiguro

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

― Italo Calvino

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

― Alexandre Dumas

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

― Thomas Mann

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

― Henri-Frédéric Blanc

People think of education as something that they can finish.

― Isaac Asimov

Most people have never known solitude. But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

― Louis Aragon

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

― Louis Aragon

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

― Louis Aragon

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

― José Saramago

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

― Aristophanes

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

― J. D. Salinger

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