“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nothing you can do about it . . . No use struggling . . . One is what one is.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Take heed, I have often heard it said in a vulgar proverb, the wise may be instructed by a fool.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no... anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty...”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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