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“I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...”
― Claude McKay

“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
― Johannes Kepler

“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself.”
― Gillian Rose, Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life