“Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“For the stability and peace of Asia, it is essential to create peace zones to separate the continent's biggest powers and potential adversaries.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“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

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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