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

― Voltaire, Candide

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“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

“Physical science therefore rests on verified or uncontradicted hypotheses; and, such being the case, it is not surprising that a great condition of its progress has been the invention of verifiable hypotheses.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

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

“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“But man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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