“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own lifeblood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. . . . It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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