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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.

[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― ben franklin, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

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

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
― Frank Crane

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”
― Dalai Lama XIV