“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“it is impossible for anyone to set out to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“And yet nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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