“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“correct understanding of a matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter are not mutually exclusive.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed!”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“My crown is in my heart, not on my head;Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,Not to be seen. My crown is call'd content;A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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