“He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he knew how to speak the truth.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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“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

“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“that seems as if a man could not see his own hand by means of the candle which he holds, and which shows him every other object in the apartment.”

― Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. How can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

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