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[A]ll life is but the dark heave of blood and the twitch of the nerve.

But if anything is for certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over[.]

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

[F]or when you get in love you are made all over again.

A time comes when you think you cannot bear another thing, but it happens to you, and you can bear it.

[T]he human being is a very complicated contraption and […] they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of bad and the bad out of good[.]

The truth shall make you free.

[Y]ou have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have to make it out of.

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

[W]hatever you live is Life.