“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.”

― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

“Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly. They want to get away from each other when there is only such a very slight bond as that between them”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Reading was the only amusement I allow'd myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continu'd as indefatigable as it was necessary.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second, and examined it at leisure.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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