“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“To try to be brave is to be brave.”

― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“But what a man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“By means of music the very passions enjoy themselves.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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