“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and 'fall into a vortex', as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Dog time cannot be plotted along a straight line; it does not move on and on, from one thing to the next. It moves in a circle like the hands of a clock, which—they, too, unwilling to dash madly ahead—turn round and round the face, day in and...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; for now hath time made me his numbering clock: my thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, whereto my finger, like a dial's point, is pointing...”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Her coming was my hope each day,Her parting was my pain;The chance that did her steps delayWas ice in every vein.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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