“even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.”

― Epictetus, Enchiridion

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“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“When the taste for physical gratifications amongst such a people has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away, and lose all self-restraint, at the sight of the...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There’s something perverse about women... they’re all masochists at heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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