“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Better poverty without care, than riches with.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“You have never loved me as I love you—never—never! Yours is not a passionate heart—your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite—not a woman!”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”

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

“You—you strange, you almost unearthly thing! —I love as my own flesh. You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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