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• "And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." ~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• "The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre (a keen enjoyment of living), their idealism - and their assumption of immortality.

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

Alam kong 'di ko naman mababasa ang lahat ng nandito. Pero masaya sa pakiramdam na magkaroon ng ganitong mahabang listahan. Tititigan mo at tapos medyo matatawa ka at sasabihin sa mapapatanong "Mababasa ko ba'tong lahat?" Syempre hindi. Pero bahala na.

• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Clockwork Orange - John Anthony Burgess Wilson
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• A Passage to India - E.M Forster
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Different Seasons - Stephen King
• Endgame - Samuel Beckett
• Endless Night - Agatha Christie
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingwa...

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• Cartoonist Manix Abrera
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“Why do we read a poem? Because it opens an old wound. Or because it closes a wound. Or because it does both at once.”— Kevin Hart

• Let it enfold you by Charles Bukowski
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1st favorite poem)
• Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
• Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda#
• Television by Roald Dahl
• Flying by Sarah Arvio
• Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
• If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
• A Poison Tree by William Blake
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Flying at Night by Ted Kooser
• Moonlight by Sara Teasdale (favorite poem)
• For What Blinds Us by Jane Hirshfield
• Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly... by E.E Cummings
• If I Could Tell You by W.H Auden

• Alberto Giacometti (sculptor; "Man Crossing the Street")
• Andrew Wyeth
• Andy Warhol (pop art)
• Ansel Adams (black and white photography)
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Claes Oldenburg
• Claude Monet
• CY Twombly (abstract expressionism)
• Edouard Manet
• Edvard Munch
• Ellsworth Kelly
• George Baselitz (upside down paintings)
• Jackson Pollock
• Jim Dine (hearts)
• Johannes Vermeer (classic, light)
• Pablo Picasso
• Piet Mondrian (De Stjil)
• Rene Magritte (surrealism)
• Robert Rauschenberg (collage)

• "It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been more successful as a seagull or a fish. I will always be a stranger, who never feels at home, who does not want and is not wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!" -Eugene O'Neill, "Long Day's Journey Into Night"
• "That's the key. And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but most of them don't catch out attention and we just let them go by. It's like fireworks in the daytime. You might hear a faint sound, but even if you look up at the sky you can't see a thing. But if we're really hoping something may come true, it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface. Then we're able to make it out clearly, decipher what it means. And seein...