“The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You jus' stand there and don't say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won't get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Men have scars, women mysteries.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The lady protests too much, methinks.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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