“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“He in peace is wounded, not in war.”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“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

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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