“If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“She was at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“All the conditions of happiness are realised in the life of the man of science.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow; it is the abyss into which...”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Take heed, I have often heard it said in a vulgar proverb, the wise may be instructed by a fool.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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