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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head. — Mark Twain · 1910Children's literature1 quote
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. — A.A. Milne · 1928Coming of age story1 quote
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Dystopian fiction1 quote
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. — George Orwell · 1949Philosophical literature1 quote
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Religious literature1 quote
The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. — David · 430 BC