“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star . . . It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“I like to make use of what I know.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“history is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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