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“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
― André Gide

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”
― Richard Francis Burton, The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night: 17 Volumes, Complete

“If you're going through hell, keep going”
― Winston Churchill

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb