“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Sometimes I feel so—I don’t know—lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team around you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Fear no more, says the heart in the body; fear no more.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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