“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; seeing none before myself had ever written of that country, wherein are above five-and-twenty kingdoms...”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working,...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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