“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The future is there . . . looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out of the window.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“It is not sufficient to use the same words in order to understand one another: we must also employ the same words for the same kind of internal experiences, we must in the end have experiences IN COMMON.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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