“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

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“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character . . . Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“He received no stars or bars, but he deserved them, for he cheerfully risked all he had, and life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

“Love is our response to our highest values—and can be nothing else.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Industrious races find it a great hardship to be idle: it was a master stroke of English instinct to hallow and begloom Sunday to such an extent that the Englishman unconsciously hankers for his week—and work-day again”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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