“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“For the stability and peace of Asia, it is essential to create peace zones to separate the continent's biggest powers and potential adversaries.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“With a woman who does not love us, as with someone who has died, the knowledge that there is nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from going on waiting.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Every one has friends who were killed in the War. Every one gives up something when they marry.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“For even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?”

― Plato, The Republic

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