“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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“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just ... come out the other side. Or you don’t.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”

― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

“Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words — they stand no chance against his powers!”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Knowledge comes from a source, from an accumulation, from a conclusion, while knowing is a movement.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“This patriotism is sometimes stimulated by religious enthusiasm, and then it is capable of making the most prodigious efforts. It is in itself a kind of religion; it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and of sentiment.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“I can’t stand the idea of being alone. I can’t bear the thought of being free.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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