“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

― Franz Kafka, The Diaries

“it is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“A lady's armor is courtesy”

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

“Faith is a miracle, and yet no man is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“I am a just man even to my enemy, and I will acknowledge beforehand that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.”

― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.”

― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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