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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“Emoţiile mortale sunt intense, palide şi egale. Cei cu adevărat în stare să sufere sufleteşte au şi orgoliul de a refula totul, au şi durerea inferiorităţii lor de o clipă - şi poate că tocmai această comprimare mistuie şi doare mai mult, deci e de presupus că tocmai cei mândri, care îşi ascund simţirea, sunt cei care, şi mai ales prin asta, suferă cu adevărat.”
― Camil Petrescu, Patul lui Procust