“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I think myself so important... I simply can’t think about anything else, that’s all.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“In love, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

― Confucius, Analects

“in order to discover that we are in love, even perhaps in order to fall in love, the day of separation needs to arrive.”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

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