“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is the stars,The stars above us, govern our conditions;”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.'”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Let us not make arbitrary conjectures about the greatest matters.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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