"When all the shouts of victory or the cries of defeat had died away, what was left in a man's soul but the memory of his integrity. Victory lay in the quality of his struggle, not in its outcome."
Freedom is not the ability to physically do whatever one wants. It is the ability to mentally interpret one's own life for oneself—to define oneself and create one's own values. Even the slave can interpret his or her life in different ways, and in this sense the slave is free. - Jean Paul Sartre
Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people. To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing, nothing but death. - Steppenwolf
However miserable one is, there is always something to be thankful for. - Albert Camus
Nobody would remeber you if you keep your thoughts secret. Force yourself to express them. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Advice pour down from stadium full, but only the matador face the bull. - Dale Cosper
Existence as it is, is unbearable. I must have the moon, or happiness, or something.
"The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life." - Henry Miller
"True literature can only exist when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics". - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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