“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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“For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“No use making more People. People die.”

― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Thus the principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“‘What is your conception of beauty?’ I said I thought it was an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels – an expression of it can be a dustbin...”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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