“It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.”

― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

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“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

“Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.”

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

“But it is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek;”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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