“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team around you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“We all like to forgive, and we all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is—love simply is.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“the order of things must not be transformed, even if we must fervently hope for its transformation.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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