My new book "A Bookish Compendium" published by Cyberwit (November 6, 2024) is now available for order from https://t.co/NqmDSJTllk. https://t.co/NqmDSJTllk: A Bookish Compendium: 9789363543669: Passas, Dimitris

“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” — Samuel Beckett

Lou Reed performing “There She Goes Again” Live on the 25th of September, 1984 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ

We are all mortal until the first kiss or the second glass of wine. -- Eduardo Galeano

On 27/04 from 7-8pm: An ONLINE evening with Scandinavian authors Anne-Mette Hancock (Denmark), Lina Bengtsdotter (Sweden) & Silje Ulstein (Norway) in conversation with Alex from @NordicWatchlist FREE tickets at https://t.co/9Pqp0LRT8y @FictionFromAfar @TapTheLine1 @Norwegianbooks

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. —Fernando Pessoa

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.” — Eric Hoffer

“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ― Aldous Huxley

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” – Rollo May

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” — Anaïs Nin

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." ~ W. H. Auden

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” — Albert Camus

Herman Hesse's library

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.” – Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

"The language of society is conformity: the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality." ~ Henry Miller

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Robert Frost

Brigitte Bardot having her portrait painted by Kees van Dongen, 1959.

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” — Aldous Huxley

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.” — Haruki Murakami

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