“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“The more ancient an institution, the greater the number of its idioms; the worse the suffering in a particular age, the more the idioms multiply.”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough... and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“books are a uniquely portable magic.”

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

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