“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

― John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government

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“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Our dreams prove that to imagine . . . is among mankind's deepest needs.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Even castles in the air can do with a fresh coat of paint.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“Aristotle says that in order to live alone, a man must be either an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking: a man must be both—a philosopher.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what.'”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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