“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other’s dreams.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...”

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“But virtue's true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work: whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be a virtue, but ambition.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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