“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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“There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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