“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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“I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”

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

“When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”

― Confucius, Analects

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