“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do . . . So as to choose”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The perfect woman, you see, was a working woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who used her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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