“For the moment I can think of nothing—except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“I mean he was very intelligent and all, but you could tell he didn't have too much brains.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Cato . . . used to assert, also, that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

― Plutarch, Parallel Lives

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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