“They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

― Confucius, Analects

“success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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