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"Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true." —Description of a Struggle, Writer, Franz Kafka
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. —The Last Lecture, Educator, Randy Pausch
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The inquisitive breeze would join in the reading and roughly finger the pages so as to discover what was going to happen next. —Time and Ebb, Novelist, Vladimir Nabokov
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May the gentle mountains and the bells of the flocks Remind us of everything we have lost, For we have seen on our way and fallen in love With the world that will pass in a twinkling." —On Pilgrimage, Poet, Czesław Miłosz
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The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime. —A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, Writer, Joseph Campbell
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Vladimir: It's the start that's difficult. Estragon: You can start from anything. Vladimir: Yes, but you have to decide. Estragon: True. —Waiting for Godot, Playwright, Samuel Beckett
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? —Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Essayist, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love gives way to business: be busy, you'll be safe. —The Cures for Love, Poet, Ovid; Translator, A. S. Kline
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"Why did you do all this for me?" he asked."I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing." —Charlotte's Web, Writer, E. B. White
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. —Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh, Humorist, Josh Billings
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. —Vanity Fair , Novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray
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"You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away," she said to him once, when he asked her why she had to be so upbeat the whole time. ——A Man Called Ove, Novelist, Fredrik Backman
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To me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence, because, the light being broad and strong, as that of noon-day at other seasons of the year, it seems to differ from perfect day, chiefly because man is not yet abroad. —Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Writer, Thomas de Quincey
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. —No Longer Human, Writer, Osamu Dazai
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Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing. —The Game of Life and How to Play It: Classic Collection, Artist, Florence Scovel Shinn
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When you give up, that's when the game ends. —Slam Dunk, Manga artist, Takehiko Inoue
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Love loves to love love. ——Ulysses, Novelist, James Joyce
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags—suitcases with false bottoms, leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of respectability ... And I never knew just what was in them. —Out of the Dark, Novelist, Patrick Modiano
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Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself; do not permit the fact that you have been set apart from life in a way, been prevented from participating actively in it, and that you are superfluous in the obtuse eyes of a busy world. —Letter to Kierkegaard's cousin Hans Peter, Philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard
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