“For, all the three years, he had carefully avoided her in consequence of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature!”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The wise speak only of what they know”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life if well spent, is long.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“it's better to write of great deeds than to perform trivial ones”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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