Antares

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus