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“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”

“To be interesting, be interested.”

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”

“Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.”

“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

“It is impossible to love and be wise.”

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

“The only journey is the one within.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.”

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was”

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”

“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…”

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”

“Words are loaded pistols.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”

“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals.. that is.. goals that do not inspire them.”

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…”

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

“In fact living is dying.”

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”

“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“… inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

“Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”