“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“They were common everyday words—the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“We live, as we dream—alone...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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