“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

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“Your soul is the whole world”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.”

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

“Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Fear is an instructer of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

“Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth—but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it... but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you...”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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