“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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