“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.”

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

“People can’t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can’t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you’re stronger, it’s so much easier to imagine you’re weaker.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“I'm like everyone else — I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The moment we recognize that the self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action, the whole situation clears up.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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