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

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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

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

“it is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“So few want to be rebels any more. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Our conclusion, then, is that political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“But I love it when people say that something can’t be done. That’s when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“The great soul of the legislator is the only miracle that can prove his mission.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“As liberals, we take freedom of the individual, or perhaps the family, as our ultimate goal in judging social arrangements.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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