“For moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have a choice.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

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“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men . . . The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“In winter nothing more dreary, in summer nothing more divine, than those glens shut in by hills, and those bluff, bold swells of heath.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

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