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

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“Tragedy . . . belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains?”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“First sign of madness, talking to your own head”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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