“Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Nothing you can do about it . . . No use struggling . . . One is what one is.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Yet it cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens, to deceive friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; such methods may gain empire, but not glory.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Folk songs are evasive — the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that’s exactly the way we want it to be.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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