“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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“How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment?”

― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as...”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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