“Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification; or he has some desire distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Married people don't look as if they have a bedroom on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government. Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“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

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