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

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
― Mark Twain

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
― Mark Twain

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
― Mark Twain

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
― Confucius

“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to distinguish between good and evil. Since people exist only in life, they must devote their time simply to being alive. Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move—which is ambition, power, pleasure. What time a man can devote to morality, he must take by force from the motion of which he is a part. He is compelled to make choices between good and evil sooner or later, because moral conscience demands that from him in order that he can live with himself tomorrow. His moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”
― William Faulkner

“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“You can't. You just have to.”
― William Faulkner

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as always, they were sorry for each other for the wrong things at the wrong time...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“hat a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe—why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.”
― Bertrand Russell

“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
― Bertrand Russell, On Education: On Education

“Sin is geographical.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.”
― bertrand russell

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”
― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“and as they stood in silence before her, prayed again. "Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life." Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey. "Please let Yvonne have her dream -- dream? -- of a new life with me -- please let me believe that all that is not an abominable self-deception," he tried... "Please let me make her happy, deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower still, that I may know the truth. Teach me to love again, to love life." That wouldn't do either... "Where is love? Let me truly suffer. Give me back my purity, the knowledge of the Mysteries, that I have betrayed and lost. -- Let me be truly lonely, that I may honestly pray. Let us be happy again somewhere, if it's only together, if it's only out of this terrible world. Destroy the world!" he cried in his heart.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“«Quejarse es estúpido. Actúa u olvídalo.» Stefan Sagmeister”
― Seth Godin, El engaño de Ícaro: ¿Hasta dónde quieres volar?

“...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.”
― John Muir, Wilderness Essays

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir