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“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
― Francis Bacon

“The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter.”
― Anonymous, The Upanishads

“love equates people”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“I want to tell you something today, something that I have known for a long while, and you know it too; but perhaps you have never said it to yourself. I am going to tell you now what it is that I know about you and me and our fate. You, Harry, have been an artist and a thinker, a man full of joy and faith, always on the track of what is great and eternal, never content with the trivial and petty. But the more life has awakened you and brought you back to yourself, the greater has you need been and the deeper the sufferings and dread and despair that have overtaken you, till you were up to your neck in them. And all that you once knew and loved and revered as beautiful and sacred, all the belief you once had in mankind and our high destiny, has been of no avail and has lost its worth and gone to pieces. Your faith found no more air to breathe. And suffocation is a hard death. Is that true, Harry? Is that your fate?”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“ყველაზე დიდი ტყუილი შეიძლება აღმოჩნდეს ზუსტად სიმართლე, ნათქვამი ისეთ სიტუაციაში, როცა მისი დაჯერება შეუძლებელია.”
― Merab Mamardashvili