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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Gertrude Stein

“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...

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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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“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

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Wallace Stevens

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“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

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing