“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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“But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

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

“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. Remember that all is opinion.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”

― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“Religions are often the state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although...”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“God is always the last resource.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Love loves to love love.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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