“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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“Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.”

― William Shakespeare, King John

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“men who take great risks often suffer great consequences.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?”

― Plato, The Republic

“You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“events only become experiences through the interest that we take in them: if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“By learning to see and appreciate beauty, we learn to reject self-interested pragmatism. If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and...”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

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