“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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