“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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