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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.

I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.

You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.

Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.