“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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“And the first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of OUR NATIONAL STUPIDITY.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“'It's a small world,' . . . 'When you put it in a cemetery, it is.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”

― Martin Luther, Table Talk

“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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