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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero