“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is usually made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.”

― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

“Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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