“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“The least forced and most natural motions of the soul are the most beautiful; the best employments, those that are least strained.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Happiness . . . must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“You can't hate something so violently unless a part of you also loves it.”

― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“She was at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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