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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton