“They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“Home is where the heart is”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Without music life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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