“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

― Confucius, Analects

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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