“I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself, and am only loud and merry to conceal my sadness.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”

― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“It has not been the path for the faint hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame, rather it has been the risk takers, the doers, the makers of things, some celebrated, but more often men and...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“What is most truly valuable is often underrated.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”

― Confucius, Analects

“No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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