“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“English is the largest human tongue; its variety, subtlety, and irrational idiomatic complexity make it possible to say things in English which cannot be said in any other language.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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