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

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“He receives comfort like cold porridge.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.”

― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason— thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“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

“Unfortunately, yes; the people we care for most are not good for us when we are ill.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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