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“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I see you. I see all those who men call monsters.
And I see the men who call them that. Call themselves heroes, of course.
I only see them for an instant. Then they’re gone.
But it’s enough. Enough to know that the hero isn’t the one who’s kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes – not always, but sometimes – he is monstrous.
And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“An ass? That’s odd,” observed Lizaveta Prokofyevna. “Yet there’s nothing odd about it; one of us may even fall in love with an ass,”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“What if I were not to die! What if I could go back to life—what eternity! And it would all be mine! I would turn every minute into an age; I would lose nothing, I would count every minute as it passed, I would not waste one!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“With beauty like that one might turn the world upside down.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“What’s most low and hateful about money is that even talent can be bought with it, and will be, till the end of the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Compassion was the chief and perhaps only law of all human existence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It’s life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All that is natural: men are created to torment one another.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“To speak truthfully is to accurately represent one’s beliefs.”
― Sam Harris, Lying

“The intent to communicate honestly is the measure of truthfulness.”
― Sam Harris

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova

“Today I feel nothing but anguish, tedium, and sadness. It is simply that kind of day.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk and Other Stories

“Children have two worlds, the one they have been given and the one they can dream about.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I love you and I believe in you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex