“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature . . . but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“ I am glad that you are here with me . . . Here at the end of all things, Sam.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“It is merely because a stepping-stone, here and there, is heedlessly left unsupplied in our road to the Differential Calculus, that this latter is not altogether as simple a thing as a sonnet by Mr. Solomon Seesaw.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka

“Such is the influence of custom, that, where it is strongest, it not only covers our natural ignorance, but even conceals itself, and seems not to take place, merely because it is found in the highest degree.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”

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

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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