“Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see—that's my idea of happiness.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“But kings and mightiest potentates must die, for that's the end of human misery.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go somewhere where you don't know a soul?”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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