“A State for one man is no State at all.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating...”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's...”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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