“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything?”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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