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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“no anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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