“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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“An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“as he stood there, love came to Big Joe Portagee. It sang in his head; it roared through his body like a great freshet; it shook him as a tropical storm shakes a forest of palms.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast—or else there is nothing more at all.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“Again, to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God, Who is the God of unity and peace.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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