“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”

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

“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?”

― Plato, The Republic

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, that man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”

― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

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