“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“I doubt whether the people of this country would suffer an execution for heresy, or a three years imprisonment for not comprehending the mysteries of the Trinity.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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