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“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”
Stages on Life's Way • Soren Kierkegaard“It was strange how both realms bordered on each other, how close together they were! For example, when Lina, our servant girl, sat with us by the living-room door at evening prayers and added her clear voice to the hymn, her washed hands folded on her smoothed-down apron, she belonged with father and mother, to us, to those that dwelled in light and righteousness. But”
Demian • Hermann Hesse““She said, ‘If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church.’ She was right. There was no way out.””
Stranger • Albert Camus““Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide