“A lady's armor is courtesy”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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“The drama of marriage is not that it does not guarantee the wife the promised happiness—there is no guarantee of happiness—it is that it mutilates her; it dooms her to repetition and routine.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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