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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are most artistically caged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire