“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Music, moody food of us that trade in love.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want—and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Analogy points in this direction, and though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“We were Black Americans in West Africa, where for the first time in our lives the color of our skin was accepted as correct and normal.”

― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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