“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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“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are situations in which people are condemned to playact.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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