“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“In a cold as in a hot war it pays to know the enemy — not least because at some time in the future you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

“He needed to bask himself in that smile . . . in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you—knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I think myself so important... I simply can’t think about anything else, that’s all.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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