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“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
Persuasion • Jane Austen“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“the teaching of my philosophy... that our whole existence is something which had better not have been, and that to disown and disclaim it is the highest wisdom.”
Counsels and Maxims • Arthur Schopenhauer“It was the first rift in my father’s sanctity, it was the first nick in the pillars on which my childish life had rested, and which every human being must destroy before he can become himself. It is of these experiences, invisible to everyone, that the inner, essential line of our destiny consists. That kind of rift and nick closes over again, it is healed and forgotten, but in the most secret chamber of the mind it continues to live and bleed.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“ “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.””
Seagull • Anton Chekhov