“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.”

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

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I’ve never been a purely linear thinker.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny. But we can have lots of good fun that is funny!”

― Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

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