“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why?”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything?”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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