“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something...”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”

― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.”

― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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