“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; but vows to every purpose must not hold.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“for a mother who has lost her child, it is always the first day. That grief never grows old. The mourning garments may grow white and threadbare, the heart remains dark.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“How can I help being a humbug, . . . when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Ah, music, . . . A magic beyond all we do here!”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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