“Mystery is never more than a mirage; it vanishes as soon as one tries to approach it.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well—you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Words are the litmus paper of the mind.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Nature does not work with an end in view. For the eternal and infinite Being, which we call God or Nature, acts by the same necessity as that whereby it exists.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.”

― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“We'll take the goodwill for the deed, and thank you as much as if we had.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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