“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
― Leo Tolstoy
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
― David Foster Wallace
― David Foster Wallace
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“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
― David Foster Wallace
― David Foster Wallace
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“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway
― Ernest Hemingway
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“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
― Marcel Proust
― Marcel Proust
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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“But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague
― Albert Camus, The Plague
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