“this secret spake Life herself unto me . . . 'I am that which must ever surpass itself'.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“don’t be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Answering to this, all religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”

― Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow; it is the abyss into which...”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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