“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“My soul should always look back and wonder at the mountains I had climbed and the rivers I had forged and the challenges which still await down the road. I am strengthened by that knowledge.”

― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Truth . . . As terrible as death. But harder to find.”

― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will...”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, which then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to originate for...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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