“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“it is impossible for anyone to set out to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“when you find that people are not telling you the truth—look out!”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“The visions we offer our children shape the future.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

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