"You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Want Quotes #Free Will Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?”
“P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to make up for all the work I'm missing at school, but I HATE busywork. And that's what this journal thing is. Half the teachers at school assign work they never read. When we get stupid assignments like that, I always write somewhere on my paper "blah blah blah" or "I bet you're not even reading this," are you? or "Give me a sign if you're reading this." They never are.”
“Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.”
“Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.”
“Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.”
“If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.”
“You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.”
“There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.33, Canongate Books

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