“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fancy or two.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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“the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“a person can’t change all at once.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“I pray you do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine: Besides, I like you not.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“with freedom come responsibilities”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Thus to persist in doing wrong extenuates not wrong, but makes it much more heavy.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

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