“For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees,—in a higher or lower grade,—of great corporations.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's...”

― Plato, Symposium

“But love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger, so she asked her question.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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