“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character . . . Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“once I'd learned the trick of remembering things, I never had a moment's boredom.”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”

― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

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