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

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?”

― George Orwell, 1984

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recours to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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