“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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“It is any man's privilege to destroy himself, so long as he does not injure anyone else, so long as he lives to and of himself”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

“Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. She was the one whose words hurt him.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“We’re all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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