“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Your goodness must have some edge to it, —else it is none.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“It requires the greatest kind of wisdom . . . to know when to apply injustice.”

― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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