“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it; but not upon such as thou.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost—something's left behind.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I think the knowledge came to him at last—only at the very last.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour.”

― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

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