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“You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.”
― Simon Mawer, Mendel's Dwarf

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”
― Lewis Carroll

“And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.”
― Mark Ravenhill

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“He thought about her deliberately. Hard. Nothing happened. He thought of her fair, undistinguished, fresh face that made your heart miss a beat when you thought about it. His heart missed a beat. Obedient heart! Like the first primrose. Not any primrose. The first primrose.”
― Ford Madox Ford

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

“Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“« On ne raconte pas aux enfants ce qui s'est passé avant eux. d'abord ils sont trop petits pour comprendre, ensuite ils sont trop grands pour écouter, puis ils n'ont plus le temps, après c'est trop tard. C'et le propre de la vie de famille. On vit côte à côte comme si on se connaissait mais on ignore tout les uns des autres. On espère des miracles de notre consanguinité : des harmonies impossibles, des confidences absolues, des fusions viscérales. On se contente du mensonge rassurant de notre parenté. »”
― Jean-Michel Guenassia

“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross