"Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Beautiful and Damned)

"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
— Edith Wharton

"It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region."
— Edith Wharton

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

"If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it."
— Albert Camus