“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Victor Hugo

“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

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

— Colette

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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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