“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.”

― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“In wartime . . . truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

― Winston Churchill, The Second World War

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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