“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“But in this retirement of the mind from the senses, it often retains a yet more loose and incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I'm going to go on a diet. I'm going to become beautiful for you.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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