“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“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

“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

― Confucius, Analects

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

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