“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself, without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fancy or two.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“But the British parliament fixes its own quorum: our former assemblies fixed their own quorum: and one precedent in favour of power is stronger than an hundred against it.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. That common language is science and mathematics.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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