“I don't want every one to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“What is it that I’ll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn’t yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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