"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."

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"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."

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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."

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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

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"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."

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"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."

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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."

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