“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor left over to experiment upon.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“In the end words are just wind.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“On this account, nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater...”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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