“Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“Oh, I assure you I've lots of time, my time is entirely my own!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Hence, money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying—and no means by which any one else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being?”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

― Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement address

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