“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Much learning does not teach understanding, otherwise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Hecataeus.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“What a weary time those years were—to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how...”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“what fire does not destroy, it hardens.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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