“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I'm of your making much more than you ever were of mine. I'm the man who married one woman because another one told him to.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee? whom follow?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Pleasure is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“They were common everyday words—the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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