“Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“A woman is shut up in a kitchen or a boudoir, and one is surprised her horizon is limited; her wings are cut, and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“It's a free country. Well, try to get some freedom to do. Fella says you're jus' as free as you got jack to pay for it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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