Manduca, iam coctum est (no matter what YOU do, some people still don't give a fuck about you, and that's beautiful)

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry" - Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, pg 239

"One goes to knowledge as one goes to war" - Carlos Castaneda - A Separate Reality, Further Conversations with Don Juan, pg 88

"You're laughed at, your merits are not appreciated. So what? Do you think you're the first man to be in that position?" - Baudelaire, in a letter to Monet

"He climbed out of the valley, wondering if he were mad. But if so, he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free" - D.H. Lawrence - Woman in Love, pg 120

"Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca" - Horace - Book 1, Satire