“all things are admired, either because they are new, or because they are great.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

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“They love their hair because they aren't smart enough to love something more interesting.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard — and in order to forget.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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