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

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol