“I have already enjoyed too much: give me something to desire.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Perhaps a man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five known to us are destroyed and the remaining ninety-five are left alive.”

― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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