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“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I still live.”
― edgar rice burroughs, John Carter of Mars

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“We have too much technological
progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent
still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better.
The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for
greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the
soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for
caring what happens to other people, least of all criminals. Even the
officials in Venezuela's remote areas are better for they're also
concerned with public peace. It gives them many headaches, but they
seem to believe that bringing about a man's salvation is worth the
effort. I find that magnificent.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ”
― Marquis de Sade

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
― William Blake

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
― William Blake

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide