“not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“Things blossom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“You wanted to look at life for yourself—but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“But habit is a great deadener.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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