“Poets act shamelessly towards their experiences: they exploit them.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“believe in a love that is being stored up for you like and inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat;”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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