“there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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“We don't have time to rush too fast with a kid who has as much chance of being a monster as a military genius.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgment on them, or send them forth to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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