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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“large birds flew swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the great oaks which, beneath their Druidical crown, and with Dodonian majesty, seemed to proclaim the inhuman emptiness of this deconsecrated forest, and helped me to understand how paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one’s memory, which must inevitably lose the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from their not being apprehended by the senses. The reality that I had known no longer existed. It”
― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“We try to rediscover in things, now precious because of it, the glimmer that our soul projected on them; we are disappointed to find that they seem to lack in nature the charm they derived in our thoughts from the proximity of certain ideas; at times we convert all the forces of that soul into cunning, into magnificence, in order to have an effect on people who are outside us, as we are well aware, and whom we will never reach”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“steer clear of any chatty, bearded weirdo who wants to tell you how terrible the future will be. Go about your business and assume that life will be okay. Without the evil influence of devils, you should be fine.”
― Mark McLaughlin, The Prisoner Of Carcosa & More Tales Of The Bizarre