“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively — because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in...”

― Jack London, White Fang

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!”

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

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!...”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

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