“But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Every man’s work . . . is always a portrait of himself”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“grief boundeth where it falls, not with the empty hollowness, but weight.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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