“To become the spectator of one's own life . . . is to escape the suffering of life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They...”

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

“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“Isabel’s written in a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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