“It is any man's privilege to destroy himself, so long as he does not injure anyone else, so long as he lives to and of himself”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

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“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”

― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

― Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent—I name no names.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known—ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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