“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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“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me you'd better go.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing oneself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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