

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov

“Become who you are!”
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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