“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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“Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion, but to human ears cannot without process of speech be told, so told as earthly notion can receive.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“By the time you read this, you’ll be older than you remember.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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