"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

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"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."

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