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“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.” - Immanuel Kant

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“People aren’t against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.” -   Laozi

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“…human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via the-book-diaries)

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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

— Carl Sagan

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The Boulevard of Montmartre on a Winter Morning

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I want to bury myself in this poem

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via books-n-quotes)

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“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

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Charles Bukowski

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“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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“…and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

— Emily Dickinson - from The Letters of Emily Dickinson

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“In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.”

— Dorothy Parker

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It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades (via books-n-quotes)