“books are a uniquely portable magic.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.'”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Still am I the richest and most to be envied—I, the lonesomest one!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more Perfection, the cause of Man's error and misery.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“all it takes is a change of attitude: I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

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