Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life…

— Nina George

“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return…

— Ashim Shanker

“His face was a study in concentration and empathy, as if every word I said was of supreme importance. It was that expression, that…

— Amy Harmon

“We became unabashed hedonists.”

— Cap'n Fatty Goodlander

“He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out; he knew…

— Ayn Rand

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham