“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

― Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux

“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest...”

― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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