“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken;”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Hence, also, we are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature; it only appears with the motives, and only in time do the motives appear in knowledge.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Love life . . . regardless of logic, and it’s only then one will understand the meaning of it.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardour of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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