“All romances end at marriage.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

“Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“There are times when custom can be the higher law.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

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

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