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

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“She hiked her skirt higher. It was like the beginning of life and laughter, it was the real meaning of the sun.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose . . . his own soul?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“to love is to destroy, and . . . to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.'”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

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