“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods detest my baseness.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may find safety if he wishes it, where every individual may attain such power as his ability permits, consistent with...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Life is one long process of getting tired.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Happiness . . . must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.”

― Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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