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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things