“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“But I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“What is it that I’ll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn’t yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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