“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Consequently love must needs precede hatred; and nothing is hated, save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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