“I am consequently proud—proud as Lucifer.”

― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

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“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“You must also resist the temptation to stray from your guidelines: If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

― Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law

“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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