“sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. . . . It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”

― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“A State for one man is no State at all.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“what we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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