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“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”

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Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist known for her novel Jane Eyre, which is considered a classic of English literature. Her works are known for their deep psychological insights and emotional intensity. more

“The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”

Doe Enough Too Much

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”

Thinking Doe Logic Fooled

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.”

Ends Shapes Likes Divinity Whistler

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.”

Art Opportunity Given Simple Tasks Profound Depth Satisfaction Sandwiches

Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.”

Knows World Littles Left Realizing Know How Car Offers Computer Available Devices Ballet Sandwiches Grim Toasters

Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!”

Knows Consequence Crosses Assuming

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

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