“For the moment I can think of nothing—except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything… Was boredom unknown to them?”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

“Because world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through bottom of bottle.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat;”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“The first step—in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come—is to teach our men to shoot.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

“Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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