“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed alone, without exteriour help sustained?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant mass action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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