“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“the merit in all things consists in the difficulty.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Oh, if the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go!”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The general observations treasured up by a course of experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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