“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“And when all the world is overchargd with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre; which provideth for every man, by Victory, or Death.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“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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