“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you—forever.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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