“God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying—and no means by which any one else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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