“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. I don’t give a fuck any more what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. I’m healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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