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“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I believe that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.”
― Tanya French, Petal: The Other Side of Suicide

“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.”
― Yann Martel

“Silence is so accurate.”
― Mark Rothko

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees. By dent of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other until one day they are declared to be the country’s official ideology.”
― Ayn Rand (Author)

“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
― Ayn Rand, The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Expanded) (1999-01-16) [Paperback]

“Men who deny individual rights cannot claim, defend, or uphold any rights whatsoever.”
― Ayn Rand, The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Expanded) (1999-01-16) [Paperback]

“Things then did not delay in turning curious.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“I’m really friendly but not quite tame.”
― Pinkola Clarissa Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly