“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“philosophy . . . people are much to blame to represent it to children for a thing of so difficult access, and with such a frowning, grim, and formidable aspect. Who is it that has disguised it thus, with this false, pale, and ghostly countenance?...”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“What's a fuck when what I want is love?”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“To die for lack of love is horrible.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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