“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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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow...”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“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

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . .”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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