“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Men's vows are women's traitors!”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something...”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.”

― Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

“things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse—hunger, hardship, and disappointment being . . . the unalterable law of life.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“The last and most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught with any tar upon his person, it was deemed sufficient proof that he had either been into the garden, or had tried to get in.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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