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Geoffrey Chaucer
“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
Geoffrey Chaucer

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Reflection poisons desire.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

Ivan Goncharov
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”
Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Ivan Turgenev
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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