“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.”

― Walter Scott, Marmion

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“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Every individual concerned with justifying his existence experiences his existence as an indefinite need to transcend himself.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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