“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

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“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“If I knew words enough I could write you the longest love-letter in the world—and never get tired.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There was only one creature in the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human activity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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