“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.'”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“In Washington the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it; in fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me — even before I was off the street — as soon as I heard his voice.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart, and he had no one to comfort him.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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