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“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“great books are the ones we need”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems