“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“If they knew that it was good for them, it would be good for them, but as long as they don't know it's good for them, it will be bad for them.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“But love is blind and lovers cannot seeThe pretty follies that themselves commit;”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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