“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn’t belong in a smart people’s club.”

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

“Then she thought that life might still be happy, and how miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her heart was beating.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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