"Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday."

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Source : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press

Daniil Kharms

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“Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.”
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
“Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.”
“Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.”
“If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.”
“I wish Iâ€™d a knowed more people. I would of loved â€˜em all. If Iâ€™d a knowed more, I would a loved more”
“I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?”

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