“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else; but without music, life would be a blank to me.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“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

“Be not too hasty . . . to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“he wondered at what age 'nice' women began to speak for themselves.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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