“Here beyond men's judgements all covenants were brittle.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The life of every individual, if we survey it as a whole and in general, and only lay stress upon its most significant features, is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Our dreams prove that to imagine . . . is among mankind's deepest needs.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“it is impossible for anyone to set out to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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