“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. Remember that all is opinion.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“I learned that pilgrims from every land—every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike—all snored in the same language.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“a leader . . . is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,' the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Confirmed then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe: so dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Death is not the end of the sickness, but death is incessantly the end.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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