“That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Love those that hate you...”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“What a piece of work is man!”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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