“That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wanted was for them to listen.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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