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“What I do not know, I don't think I do.”
― Plato, Great Dialogues of Plato

“When you've grasped the fact that today or tomorrow you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes so insignificant.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“To bake a cake in the eye of a storm; to feed yourself sugar on the cusp of danger.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“hard to believe that the world had ended and yet somehow these ridiculous activities kept grinding on.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Then if the people are willing to yield , well and good; but if not, he will treat the city as the man did the mother and father:
he will import new comrades and chastise it if he can; he will keep and maintain his own fatherland and once dear motherland, as the Cretans call it, in slavery under these foreigners.
So this will be the final consummation of such a man's desire.”
― Plato, Republic, Books 9-10

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Nobody dreams of the things he already has.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“After all, no truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she’s happy. She just is.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“What is a country but a life sentence?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“To love something, then, is to name it after something so worthless it might be left untouched—and alive. A name, thin as air, can also be a shield.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“No one should ever allow himself to fall down in the belief that someone else will lift him to his feet because it will not happen; or if it does happen it will not prove to his advantage.”
― Nicollo Machiavelli

“You don’t need a point. The point is maybe that the point is too big to see or work round to on our own”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch