“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“There is no greater monster than reason.”

― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“It was impossible that he did not love her still. Did you cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“An incompetent traitor is no danger. It is rather the capable men who must be watched.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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