“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“It was impossible that he did not love her still. Did you cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”

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

“If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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