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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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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“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

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Wallace Stevens

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“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

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— George Orwell

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Simone Weil