This.

She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. - Annie Dillard

This too.

Disce quasi semper victurus.
-"Learn as if you were going to live forever."

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Anais Nin

"There can be no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - Carl Jung