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“If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Time is more important to me than distance.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“If life must not be taken too seriously—then so neither must death.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interests are at stake.” Aristotle, “Politics”

“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“Asking questions were the most important thing.” Franz Kafka, “The Trial” - 1925

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

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