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

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“Friend, we understand not one another: I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“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

“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language;...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to slower near a massive body like the earth.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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