“Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com
“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com
“And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of moveme…”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.ca
“You are right, in one sense, when you speak of honesty. An effort, anyway, with the usual human or feminine retractions. To retreat is not feminine, male, or trickery. It is a terror before utter destruction. What we analyze inexorably, will it die? Will June die? Will our love die, suddenly, instan…”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.ca
“The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.”— Andy Warhol, anngora.com
“There, on the beaches, of Thailand, I decided to quit my job and travel the world alone for one straight year.”— Rob Fee, amazon.com
“I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“And anyone who lacks the ability to don blinkers for once and to convince himself that the destiny of his soul depends upon whether he is right to make precisely this conjecture and no other at this point in his manuscript should keep well away from science. He will never be able to submit to what w…”— Max Weber, amazon.com