“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”

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

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“A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain, but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“in order to discover that we are in love, even perhaps in order to fall in love, the day of separation needs to arrive.”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. She was turned to a pillar of salt.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Columbus did not set out to seek a new route to China in response to a...”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty…”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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