“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.”

― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

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“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Now if nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain, the inference must be that she has made all animals for the sake of man.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Only a handful of writers—and I'm talking the most talented—are able to pull off the kind of irrational synthesis you find in dreams.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“I was liked, and what a difference it made.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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