“it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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“Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes; but silence is also the mutual understanding between the Deity and the individual.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

“In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable—almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Since I won't let critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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