“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realisation of the world in which we live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted it was worth knowing.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Snape’s Patronus was a doe . . . the same as my mother’s, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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