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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
― Sophocles

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition