“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“supreme joy is a hundredfold greater in anticipation than in possession; its savour is greater while we wait for it than when it is ours.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“With a woman who does not love us, as with someone who has died, the knowledge that there is nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from going on waiting.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“The sun and stars that float in the open air,. . . surely the drift of them is something grand,I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness”

― Walt Whitman, A Song for Occupations

“The property of power is to protect.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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