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“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words”
― Winston Churchill

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”
― Emil Cioran

“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
― Frank Herbert

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms