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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

—Bertrand Russell

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that scared me. You accepted me—broken and faulty.

—Monica Alexander in Buried Castles

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

—Tom Lehrer

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I don’t know what comes next. I can’t know, until I’ve walked the road I’ve chosen. I don’t have a plan, and there is no map for this. It’s terrifying, but there’s a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

—Walter Bagehot

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

—Charles Baudelaire

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

—Clare Booth Luce

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

—Edward De Bono

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