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The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Kindness is unconquerable, so long as it is without flattery or hypocrisy. For what can the most insolent man do to you, if you contrive to be kind to him, and if you have the chance gently advise and calmly show him what is right...and point this out tactfully and from a universal perspective. But you must not do this with sarcasm or reproach, but lovingly and without anger in your soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Soon, you will have forgotten everything.
Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.”
― Marcel Proust , Du côté de chez Swann

“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
― Marcel Proust

“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion”
― Marcel Proust

“...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.”
― Marcel Proust

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -

The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For- hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -

The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
― Epicurus

“Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.”
― Epicurus, The Art of Happiness

“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
― Kanye West

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.”
― william s. burroughs

“Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit -- not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”
― William S. Burroughs