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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Epictetus

“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...

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Simone Weil

“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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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Colette

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Doris Lessing

“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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