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“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
― Suzy Kassem

“I do not fear death. I fear only that my rage will fade over time.”
― Kurapika

“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
― Mark Twain

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
― Vincent van Gogh, VAN GOGH

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.”
― Robert Herrick

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where the world comes in my way—and it comes in my way everywhere—I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but—my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life lived chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.       I”
― Kent Nerburn, Simple Truths : Clear and Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues in Life: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
― Moliere

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“But whom to love?
To trust and treasure?
Who won’t betray us in the end?
And who’ll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
― Anaïs Nin