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“Literature is not meant to give answers… it is meant to unsettle, to open questions.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM

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“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

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“The pleasure is not really in writing, it is in reading.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM

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“Slowly losing friends is a part of growing up.”

Tom Hardy (1977) British actor, screenwriter and producer
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Albert Schweitzer quote: “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
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“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

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“Another word for creativity is courage.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

Variant: Creativity takes courage.

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“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!!!”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Oprah Winfrey quote: “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
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“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
2008

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“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”

Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women

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Marco Polo quote: “You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.”
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“You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.”

Marco Polo (1254–1324) Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia

Source: The Travels

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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

Il est encore plus facile de juger de l'esprit d'un homme par ses questions que par ses réponses. (It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers) — Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis (1764-1830), Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets de morale et de politique (Paris, 1808): Maxim xviii
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