“What a weary time those years were—to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I have had my share of vanity; for as a young man I was admired by women; and as a statue I am praised by art critics.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Windmill or no windmill . . . life would go on as it had always gone on—that is, badly.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been so moulded in the making.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“Snow-crystals, the flowers of the mountain clouds, are frail, beautiful things, but terrible when flying on storm-winds in darkening, benumbing swarms or when welded together into glaciers full of deadly crevasses.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

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