“I wouldn’t miss Mrs. Flowers, because she had given me her secret word which would help me all my life: books.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“'Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?' 'Nothing, precious . . . they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.'”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Life —that means for us constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Married people don't look as if they have a bedroom on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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