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“Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.”
― Bhagat singh

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”
― Francis Bacon

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
― Francis Bacon

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“A Poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

“If all be true that i do think,
There are fice reasons we should drink,
Good wine- a friend - or being dry-
Or lest we should be by and by-
Or any other reason why.”
― Henry Aldrich

“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
― John Morley, On Compromise

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

“It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat