“not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined”

― George Washington, State of the Union Address

“The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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