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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Victor Hugo. 'Les Miserables'

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

Oscar Wilde. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'The Great Gatsby'

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare. 'Anthony and Cleopatra'

All happy families are {alike;} each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy. 'Anna Karenina'

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of {time;} but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty. 'One Winter's Beginning'

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

John Steinbeck. 'East of Eden'

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice.

Stephen King. 'The Shawshank Redemption'

There is but one categorical imperative, namely this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant. 'Critique of Practical Reason'

Live all you {can;} it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

Henry James. 'The Ambassadors'