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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same -- everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ”
― Jeremy Bentham

“Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”
― Samuel Beckett

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus