“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“you can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”

― Confucius, Analects

“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

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

“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

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