“Yet command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings).”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“supreme joy is a hundredfold greater in anticipation than in possession; its savour is greater while we wait for it than when it is ours.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”

― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Each of us has heaven and hell in him”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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