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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

“There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“reading these books. Oh, the endless labor of the intellectual—pouring all this knowledge into the brain through a three-millimeter aperture in the iris.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan