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“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“I think we regular people may have forgotten a basic truth—we don’t really have the right to judge anyone else.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“Between the desire
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow.

This is the way the world ends.

from "The Hollow Man”
― T.S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
― La Rochefoucauld

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“78.—The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“437.—We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“93.—Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“267.—A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
― T.S. Eliot

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
― T.S. Eliot

“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
― T.S. Eliot