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“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything.”

— Immanuel Kant

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“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“Today we are called new writers. The coming tomorrow, considering us old, will lock us in closets, but that does not mean we have lived in vain.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

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“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

— William Shakespeare

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“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”

— Charles Bukowski

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“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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“For humans the idea of freedom is all too often a means of deceiving themselves. And although freedom is among the most exalted of feelings, so is the illusion of freedom among the most exalted of illusions.”

— Franz Kafka

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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

— Charles Bukowski

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“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares - most ordinary - so ordinary that you can't believe the brains behind them capable of genocide."

— John A. Williams

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“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”

— Amanda Gorman

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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.”

— Karl Marx

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"Life is like a shell, Self is like a drop of april shower,The worth of a shell diminishes if it lacks the ability to transform a drop into a pearl"

— Allama Iqbal