“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of any folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”

― John Muir, The Yosemite

“Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Death is not the end of the sickness, but death is incessantly the end.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

“men have become the tools of their tools.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Past glories are poor feeding.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”

― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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