“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“I want to weep . . . I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Don't you know . . . that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”

― P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theory, science or mathematics. I believe that faith is an extension of the mind. It is the key that negates the impossible. To deny...”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“I may not be as strong as I think . . . But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

― Plato, The Republic

“religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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