“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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“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“You’re mine . . . Mine, as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live.”

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

“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The justice which began with the maxim, 'Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off,' ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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