“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”

― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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