“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Some things are fairly obvious when it’s a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the...”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”

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

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“You—you strange, you almost unearthly thing! —I love as my own flesh. You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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