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“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.”
― Colin Wilson

“Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.”
― Colin Wilson

“Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it.”
― Colin Wilson

“It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”
― Lao Tzu

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
― Georges Bataille

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

“Lavo, refresco, limpo os meus sentidos”
― Cesário Verde, O Livro de Cesário Verde

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
― Albert Camus

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls