“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty…”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“That’s what they should teach us here . . . how girls’ brains work... it’d be more useful than Divination anyway.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through — usually with relief that the choice was made.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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