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

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything… Was boredom unknown to them?”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“So much universe, and so little time.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero

“He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“human power is extremely limited, and is infinitely surpassed by the power of external causes; we have not, therefore, an absolute power of shaping to our use those things which are without us.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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