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On solitude & peace
A room without books
is like a body without a soul.
—
Anonymous
solitude
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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. — Alan Watts
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Brontë
Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. — Voltaire
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Brontë
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. — George Eliot
The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it. — Henry David Thoreau
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. — Confucius
May you live every day of your life. — Jonathan Swift
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. — Carl Jung
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R.R. Martin
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