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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“One today is worth two tomorrows”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“memory is a faithless friend”
― Dan Gilbert

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life