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“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Separation is painful, but so is its opposite. And if being together brings joy, then it is only proper that separation should do the same in its own way.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“No, the old proverb does not lie: Look for the brave in prison, and the stupid among the political leaders!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”
― Aleksander Solzhenitsyn , Archipiélago Gulag I

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.”
― José Saramago

“Don't you know, If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are”
― José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island