“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.”

― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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