“people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, when for so slight and frivolous a cause such factious emulations shall arise!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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