- "This is love, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?" - Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher." - Terre des Hommes, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- "Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again." (__Oldboy__)
- "You have a serious problem of distorting reality. You could sleep with the entire planet and still feel rejected." (__The Science of Sleep__)
- "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
- "吾十有五而志於學,三十而立,四十而不惑,五十而知天命,六十而耳順,七十而从心所欲,不逾矩。"
- “Lo duca e io per quel cammino ascoso intrammo a ritornar nel chiaro mondo; e sanza cura aver d’alcun riposo, salimmo su, el primo e io secondo, tanto ch’i’ vidi de le cose belle che porta ‘l ciel, per un pertugio tondo. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.” (_Dante's Inferno, Canto XXIV_)
- “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” (_Confucius_)
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