“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

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“Nothing that we do, is done in vain.”

― Charles Dickens,

“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Every moment of your life is lived for the future — you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a...”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“But you, that are polluted with your lusts, stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents, corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, because you want the grace that others have, you judge it straight a thing impossible to compass wonders but by...”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“my friends have made the story of my life.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“The justice which began with the maxim, 'Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off,' ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“Our strife pertains to ourselves—to the passing generations of men—and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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