“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The important thing to understand about American history . . . is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Be not afraid of greatness.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Immanuel Kant argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways: by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice.”

― Henry Kissinger, On China

“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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