“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

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“We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Should you find yourself in a chronically-leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

― Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement address

“You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called,...”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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