“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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“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”

― Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words — they stand no chance against his powers!”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification; or he has some desire distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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