“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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