“Every man’s work . . . is always a portrait of himself”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Never . . . be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices . . . and I can always be hopeful of you.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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