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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Victor Hugo

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Will Durant

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

“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

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Margaret Atwood

“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...

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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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