“Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always—the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, it helps not, it prevails not.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“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

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a Reserved sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I’d never see her again.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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