“those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“all it takes is a change of attitude: I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves with the full belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Past glories are poor feeding.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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