“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.”

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

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“those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Thus with a kiss I die.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Married people don't look as if they have a bedroom on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Immortals become mortals, mortals become immortals; they live in each other's death and die in each other's life.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.”

― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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