“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Gertrude Stein

“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

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Carl Jung

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Edward R. Murrow