“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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