“to love is to destroy, and . . . to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

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“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast'; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we...”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.”

― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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