“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“We have no need for genius—genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh…”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Now, because we cannot know what God is, but rather what He is not, we have no means for considering how God is, but rather how He is not.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Economy is the method by which we prepare to-day to afford the improvements of to-morrow.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

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