“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”

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

“The letters I had just inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“We both have war inside of us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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