“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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“assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“My soul should always look back and wonder at the mountains I had climbed and the rivers I had forged and the challenges which still await down the road. I am strengthened by that knowledge.”

― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear... but now she saw that she had donned them after all.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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