“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“Women . . . inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What do men know about women's martyrdoms? We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Mirrors . . . are never to be trusted.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Be the sun and all will see you.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go somewhere where you don't know a soul?”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Yet, tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still at large. These enemies view the entire world as a battlefield, and we must pursue them wherever they are.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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