“An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear,...”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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