“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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“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“the processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.”

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

“ there have been times when brave men have killed their wives and their womenkind, to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

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