“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“In the end words are just wind.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“All oppression creates a state of war.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's...”

― Plato, Symposium

“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I’ve never been a purely linear thinker.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“She was dazzling—alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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