“Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even centaurs’ knowledge, was foolproof.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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