“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, pass'd over to the end they were created, would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything had which nature makes inevitable.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“it's better to look at the sky than live there.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in the mire.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language;...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors and hereafter she may suffer, both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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