“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“I was beside myself with rage, and if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“We were born to strive and endure—you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Nature teaches us to devour each other and gives us the example of all the crimes and all the vices which the social state corrects or conceals.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

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