“I'm sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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“Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to enquire into the causes of things: because the knowledge of them, maketh men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Wonderfully, soon afterwards, insight came towards me in the form of the great Buddha's teachings, I felt the knowledge of the oneness of the world circling in me like my own blood.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life....”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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