“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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