“There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

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

“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The logical picture of the facts is the thought.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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