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“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
― Paul Valéry

“If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be.”
― Inio Asano, Nijigahara Holograph

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ”
― Paul Valery

“Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.”
― Paul Valéry

“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
― Paul Valéry

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
― Voltaire

“I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.”
― Joseph Goebbels