“Therefore it is that man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

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“isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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