“The more you know the more unhappy you are.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Never ask people. Not about your work.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

― Confucius, Analects

“I want to know what passion is . . . I want to feel something strongly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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