“It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Her reputation of reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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