“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

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

“The outer is of the day, under the empire of mode; the outer passes away, in swift endless changes; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day and forever.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“'Build a house? . . . For Wendy? . . . Why, she is only a girl!' 'That . . . is why we are her servants.'”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of...”

― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

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