“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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“It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.”

― John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

“But courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Her eyes were fine, but so large that they seemed to be bending beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in an ill humour.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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