“The aim of life is self-development.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“If you love me, as you say, . . . do so that I may be at peace.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Everything kills everything else in some way.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“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

“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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