“there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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“But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“a person doesn't die when he should but when he can.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

― Confucius, Analects

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