“Desire arising from pleasure is, other conditions being equal, stronger than desire arising from pain.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and...”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem—just to avoid violence.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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