“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”

― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking

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“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, remembers me of all his gracious parts, stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; then have I reason to be...”

― William Shakespeare, King John

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of any folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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