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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings