“nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know;”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“The same vicious circle can be found in all analogous circumstances: when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second, you're an object. I am nothing, and not even that.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.”

― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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