“The final mystery is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Such a nature, tickled with good success, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon.”

― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you...”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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