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“Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.” Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays” - 1910

“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who...” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” - 1942

“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“I saw now that a man alone is but a being that may become a man—that he is but a need, and therefore a possibility.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason— thinks it would be a good idea to give them.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.” Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince” - 1532

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“O Gandalf! . . . May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world .” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear,...” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can't be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER).” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“God knows better than we what we need.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.” Charles Bukowski, “Factotum” - 1975

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“We all need someone to look at us.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Our dreams prove that to imagine . . . is among mankind's deepest needs.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

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