“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I have always felt, . . . that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition, and charity chas'd hence by rancour's hand; foul subornation is predominant, and equity exil'd your highness' land.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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