“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life . . . These things are wine, women and song.”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

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“If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be...”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and never was I able to turn back, any more than a record can...”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“I am selfish. I am brave.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“For it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education—or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Had I been born where laws are less strict and tastes less dainty, I should treat myself to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening's amusement.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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