“Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be...”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“it is impossible for anyone to set out to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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