“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Those who trust us educate us.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you never will know.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one—the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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