“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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“In Kant's language, even 'Good morning,' suitably pronounced, can take the shape of a metaphysical thesis.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Thus any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call LOVE.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“God is always the last resource.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light...”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain, and how shall we do that for others which we are seldom able to do for ourselves?”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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