“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“You see, poetry resembles metaphysics, one does not mind one's own, but one does not like any one else's.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it—which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.”

― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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