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“Beauty had this penalty -- it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life -- froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.”
To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf““It’s always difficult to be born. As you know, the bird must make an effort to break out of the egg. Think back and ask: Was the path really that difficult? Merely difficult? Wasn’t it also beautiful? Could you have thought of a more beautiful or easier one?””
Demian • Hermann Hesse“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce“We may, indeed, indulge in sport and jest, but in the same way as we enjoy sleep or other relaxations, and only when we have satisfied the claims of our earnest, serious task”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
Man's Search For Meaning • Viktor E Frankl