“it is impossible for anyone to set out to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

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“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration;— this may be called perfect virtue.”

― Confucius, Analects

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“The family structure. Victory over adversity through the family. He believed in it. Take the family, mix with God and Country, add the ten-hour day and you had what was needed.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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