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"Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence."

Jules Feiffer

"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, Letter, June 1857

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence."

E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood."

E.M. Forster, Preface to A Passage to India

"The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own."

Eric Fromme