“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Mystery is never more than a mirage; it vanishes as soon as one tries to approach it.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“there is no darknessbut ignorance;”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. DO NOT COMPLAIN. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change...”

― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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