"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

Kerouac, Jack on Dreams
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on Love
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

Wilde, Oscar on Love
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"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

Wilde, Oscar on Seriousness
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

Wilde, Oscar on Sincerity
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"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile."

Wilde, Oscar on Youth
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"They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."

Aristotle on Youth
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on Youth
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"You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough."

Lewis, Joe E. on Youth
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on Youth
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on Life and Living
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"A kiss may ruin a human life."

Wilde, Oscar on Kisses and Kissing
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on Goals
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on Passion
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"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born."

Kerouac, Jack on Eternity
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"For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly."

Shakespeare, William on Resolution
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"We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Resolution
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on Advice
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life."

Wilde, Oscar on Failure
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on Food and Eating
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"There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place."

White, Elwyn Brooks on Youth
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