"Man is a problem-creating animal."

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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Novelist

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"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Novelist

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"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Every human being desires love and happiness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"We are but a bunch of neurons."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"

"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."

"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."

"Every human being desires love and happiness."

"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."

"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."

"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."

"We are but a bunch of neurons."

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."

"My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases."

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"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."

"The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality."

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"You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own."

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"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

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