“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Must it ever be thus,—that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything… Was boredom unknown to them?”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?”

― George Orwell, 1984

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