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“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whereas Socrates would walk up to people in the marketplace and harass them by asking them to define virtue, Pythagoras and his young students in Croton supposedly observed a code of silence, to prevent their secret teachings from being divulged to the uninitiated.”
― Peter Adamson, Classical Philosophy

“Even a whole society,” Marx comments, “a nation, or even all simultaneously existing societies together, are not the owners of the globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and like boni patres familias [good fathers of families] they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an improved condition.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“Nefericirea noastră nu atinge apogeul decât atunci când am întrezărit, îndeajuns de aproape, posibilitatea practică a fericirii.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune