“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view...”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“I loved him very much—more than I could trust myself to say—more than words had power to express.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

― George Orwell, London Letter

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

“Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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