“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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