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“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis