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“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
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― Terentianus Maurus, De syllabis (Hypomnemata)

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre