“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.”

― Walter Scott, Marmion

“Do you know . . . why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions . . . because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It seems that some women love to be exploited. When they are not exploited, they exploit the man.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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