“My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and, whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy,—the purest joy of life.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone!”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

― George Santayana, The Life of Reason

“Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I...”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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