“All her virtue returned, because her love was waning.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. This is called 'getting our experience.'”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,...”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“People are like lice—they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“It made me aware that hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily.”

― Richard Branson, Screw It

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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