“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Liberty . . . is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat, and he reproached himself with not loving her.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“He that is strucken blind cannot forgetThe precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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