“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“And on and on it went— that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man so full of loving echoes.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“That’s the trouble with you young people . . . You think because you ain’t been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forget more than you ever know. ”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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