"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther .... And one fine morning -----
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Franklin, Benjamin.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Freud, Sigmund
"...One might venture to regard obsessional neurosis as a pathological counterpart of the formation of a religion, and to describe that neurosis as an individual religiosity and religion as a universal obsessional neurosis."
Frost, Robert, The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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