“Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”

― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“'Build a house? . . . For Wendy? . . . Why, she is only a girl!' 'That . . . is why we are her servants.'”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“This patriotism is sometimes stimulated by religious enthusiasm, and then it is capable of making the most prodigious efforts. It is in itself a kind of religion; it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and of sentiment.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The letters I had just inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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