“people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.”

― Charles Dickens,

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“He was so happy that this grieved him more than it would have done at any other time.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

“boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“There are no gains without pains.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

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