Alec Dopkins

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“There are even those who say that they are merely minding their own business, whether out of concern for their family's wealth, or from a general distaste for human interaction. And, indeed, they don't seem to do anyone harm. But in escaping one kind of injustice they run right into another, in that they abandon the social aspect of life, giving it no attention, effort or assistance.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Living and Dying Well

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov