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“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”
― Federico García-Lorca

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

“World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.”
― William Shakespeare

“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?”
― Rilke Rainer Maria

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

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.”
― Albert Camus

“No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.”
― Dante Alighieri

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.”
― Gaetan Soucy

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West