“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“For this is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Thus passed with the lonesome one months and years; his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ”

― Neil Gaiman, Where do you get your ideas?

“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at...”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

― Plato, The Republic

“the pleasure isn’t in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

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