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“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
― marquis de sade

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
― Heraclitus

“Let reason alone decide”
― Parmenides

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

“Till now it was believed that time and space existed by themselves, even if there was nothing else--no sun, no earth, no stars--while now we know that time and space are not the vessel for the universe, but could not exist at all if there were no contents, namely, no sun, earth and other celestial bodies.”
― Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, The Einstein Theory of Relativity

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training”
― Anna Freud

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
― William Pitt the Younger

“I have no mission. No one has.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
― Montesquieu

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شيء : أن نبكي بلا سبب !”
― إميل سيوران

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is because I'm a Gemini.”
― Raymond M. Smullyan, 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies

“No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman.”
― Henry Cornelius Agrippa

“Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed.
The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
And, as they say, the incident is closed.
Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind.
Now you and I are quits. Why bother then
To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts.
Behold what quiet settles on the world.
Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
In hours like these, one rises to address
The ages, history, and all creation.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Do not expect too much of the end of the world.”
― Stanislaw Jerzy Lec