“To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“'It's a small world,' . . . 'When you put it in a cemetery, it is.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“if there is no communal feeling between you and other people, try to be near to things — they will not abandon you.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostiques, consisteth the Naturall seed of Religion”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

“There is no nature which is inferior to art, for the arts imitate the nature of things.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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