“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The man, who is guided by reason, is more free in a State, where he lives under a general system of law, than in solitude, where he is independent.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Only by the reflex of other lives can he ripen his specialty, develop the idea of himself, the individuality that distinguishes him from every other.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“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

“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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