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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
― Christopher Morley

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“No man, unless he be dead in living, can feel at anchor in this life.”
― René Char, The Brittle Age and Returning Upland

“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.”
― Émile Zola

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata

“Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.”
― Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog