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“Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.”
―Luigi Pirandello

“Enlarge my life with multitude of days!
In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.”
―Samuel Johnson

Source/Notes:
Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)

“Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.”
―Leo Buscaglia

“Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.”
―Blaise Pascal

Source/Notes:
Pensées (1669), No. 299

“A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.”
―Gaston Bachelard

Source/Notes:
Introduction - L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
―Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source/Notes:
Chapter VII : The Eternal Revolution - Orthodoxy (1908)

“Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?”
―Michel Foucault

Source/Notes:
Madness and Civilization (1964)

“He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.”
―George Orwell

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
―Audrey Hepburn

Source/Notes:
Audrey: Her Real Story (1997) by Alexander Walker, p. 281

“The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the essential doctrines of the Christian religion he does not even mention.”
―Florence Nightingale

Source/Notes:
As quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 392

“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”
―Charlie Chaplin

Source/Notes:
As quoted in:" Charlie Chaplin, Brightest star of silent films" (Portaparole, 2005) by Ingeborg Kohn, p. 10

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
―Jesus Christ

“When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.”
―Ronald Reagan

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
―Richard Bach

Source/Notes:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

“When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.”
―Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.”
―Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes:
Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (1951)

“Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.”
―Homer

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
―F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source/Notes:
The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 3

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