“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Had I been born where laws are less strict and tastes less dainty, I should treat myself to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening's amusement.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“there are books . . . which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“I sit down beside her and she talks—a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as...”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“We all dream of things we cannot have.”

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

“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don’t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know...”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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