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“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.”
― Catherine Breillat, Romance

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Be Ground
Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
You've been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi