“Every one desires happiness, but to secure it he must know what happiness is.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There are some dangers which when they are braved, disappear, and which yet, when there is an obvious and apparent dread of them displayed, become certain and inevitable.”

― Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

“Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonour, must have a proud and a powerful soul.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is worth nothing. One breaks one’s neck in living.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer...”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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