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“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
― Molière

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

“Keep cool but care”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I am the dead palm tree, the Negro's dancing pumps, the dried fountain after tourist season. I am all the appurtenances of night.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Shall I project a world?”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Humboldt: 'On Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species

“All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

“If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action

“Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness”
― Wilhelm von Humboldt

“We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.”
― Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.”
― Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.”
― john kennedy toole, A Confederacy of Dunces