“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“All we can know is that we know nothing.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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