“I am going to read Eugénie Grandet. It isn't that I get any great pleasure out of it: but I have to do something.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“Behold the beast, for which I have turned back; Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage, For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Can we actually know the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love. But the power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it — on the inside.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He also gave me a piece of advice that I have always remembered, namely, that, if I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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