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“All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”
Of Mice and Men • John Steinbeck“Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce“Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in doing that. For all of them work is a means and not an end in itself. Hence they are not very refined in their choice of work, if only it pays well. But there are, if only rarely, men who would rather perish than work without any pleasure in their work. They are choosy, hard to satisfy, and do not care for ample rewards, if the work itself is not to be the reward of rewards. Artists and contemplative men of all kinds belong to this rare breed, but so do even those men of leisure who spend their lives hunting, traveling, or in love affairs and adventures. All of these desire work and misery only if it is associated with pleasure, and the hardest, most difficult work if necessary. Otherwise their idleness is resolute, even if it spells impoverishment, dishonor, and danger to life and limb. They do not fear boredom as much as work without pleasure.”
The Gay Science • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche