“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny, the boy thought.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm pain for a while or anguish, and excite fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Ah! by Jove! one’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that...”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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