“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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“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end; each changing place with that which goes before, in sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“I know not why I love this youth, and I have heard you say love's reason's without reason.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“The only true world solution today is governments guided by true religion—of the spirit.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew desire with thee still longer to converse induced me.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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