“Confine thyself to the present.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”

― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

“Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“every mule hates to be reminded that his father was a donkey.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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