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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #1
    Lionel Shriver
    “Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”
    Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “It’s absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, L'Étranger

  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #5
    Charles Dickens
    “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
    Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

  • #6
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Rise like Lions after slumber
    In unvanquishable number-
    Shake your chains to earth like
    dew
    Which in sleep had fallen on you
    Ye are many-they are few.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

  • #7
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #9
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #10
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #13
    Alexander Pope
    “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
    The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
    Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
    Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #15
    Paul Kalanithi
    “You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #16
    Walter Mosley
    “If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”
    Walter Mosley

  • #17
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #19
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #20
    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #21
    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #22
    Bertrand Russell
    “The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
    Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays



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