“To become the spectator of one's own life . . . is to escape the suffering of life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...”

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“For this is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Thus passed with the lonesome one months and years; his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what the Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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