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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
― Robert Frost

“Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.”
― Robert Frost