“Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments .”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate you to crime”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.”

― Confucius, Analects

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