“You see, poetry resembles metaphysics, one does not mind one's own, but one does not like any one else's.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“she felt . . . how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The justice which began with the maxim, 'Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off,' ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Be not too hasty . . . to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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