“Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will—but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason— thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Absence is to love as wind to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“The work is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, it becomes terrible.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We were Black Americans in West Africa, where for the first time in our lives the color of our skin was accepted as correct and normal.”

― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“The more ancient an institution, the greater the number of its idioms; the worse the suffering in a particular age, the more the idioms multiply.”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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