And I vow to myself that I will never go to Katya’s again, though I know I shall go next evening.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But I began packing that same afternoon, and wildly packed up things that I knew I should want next morning, in a fiction that there was not a moment to be lost.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But the worst of it was, that I knew I should be ashamed to eat anything, when an opportunity offered, and that, after a rather light dinner, I should remain hungry all night—for I had left my cakes behind, at the hotel, in my hurry.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Where you send me I will go, though I know I shall never return.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Then I knitted it some socks and a little jacket and other things, and that made a sort of friendship between us.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

His wildly thrown metal club made a lucky hit on the tube itself, knocking it, shattered and useless, out of Zehru's grasp.
— from Zehru of Xollar by Hal K. Wells

I fret, I charge, I strike, I take, I kill, I slay, I play the devil.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by François Rabelais

With what secret satisfaction I planned to widen the front porch and build a two-story bay-window on the north end of the sitting room—an enterprise of such audacity that I kept it strictly to myself!
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Then I knew I should not be drowned—I should be kept safely.
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

In immediate experience the relation between the mental act of knowing and the object that is known is so simple that any question as to truth or error in regard to it is unmeaning.
— from The Problem of Truth by Herbert Wildon Carr