“Perhaps they were right in putting love into books . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

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“Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“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

“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

“But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you—forever.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are all embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“Labour . . . is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called,...”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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