“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“I'm alive. . . . Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.”

― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“reason is the greatest enemy that faith has”

― Martin Luther, Table Talk

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but...”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Machiavelli . . . He professed to teach kings; but it was the people he really taught.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Was there anything so real as words?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”

― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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