“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“All thinking men are atheists”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“All is full, existence everywhere, dense, heavy and sweet. But, beyond all this sweetness, inaccessible, near and so far, young, merciless and serene, there is this . . . this rigour.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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