“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.”

― Walter Scott, Marmion

“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary.”

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

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The work is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, it becomes terrible.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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