“it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

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“Things blossom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.”

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

“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“But neither do these come within the compass of our mental powers; and it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

― Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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