“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables

“In Washington the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it; in fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”

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

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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