“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“A woman is shut up in a kitchen or a boudoir, and one is surprised her horizon is limited; her wings are cut, and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Our memories and our hearts are not large enough to remain faithful. We have not room enough, in our present mental space, to keep the dead alongside the living.”

― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”

― Confucius, Analects

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to...”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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