“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard