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“For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them.”
A Confession • Leo Tolstoy“It needs to realize that what happens to everyone—bad and good alike—is neither good nor bad. (Hays translation)”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it. ”
The Blind Owl • Sadegh Hedayat“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”
Persuasion • Jane Austen“He who has never hoped can never despair.”
Ceaser and Cleopatra • George Bernard Shaw