“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“In wartime . . . truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

― Winston Churchill, The Second World War

“Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they’ll never get again.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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