“No one wishes to preserve his being for the sake of anything else.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“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

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“It's not through obedience that men go out of their way to get killed—nor through obedience that they kill. … Except cowards.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

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